num_pages: 76
description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAverno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, 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 present.Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
language: English
title: Averno
titlecomplete: Averno
genres: American, Mythology, Female Authors, Nobel Prize, Womens, Poetry, Fantasy, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5433
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, Strauss & Giroux