num_pages: 76
description: Averno is a small crater lake in southern , regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s eleventh in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time opposing their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without plot or hope, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring presence.Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
language: English
title: Averno: Poems
titlecomplete: Averno: Poems
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Poetry, Womens, Female Authors, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Mythology, Fantasy
ratings_count: 5434
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux