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In Louise Glück’s poetic masterpiece, Averno, dreams and nightmares play a crucial role in exploring the depths of the human psyche. Throughout the collection, the speaker grapples with the concept of death and the afterlife, often using dreams as a means of processing these complex emotions.
12 mar 2006 · The poet Louise Glück journeys into the underworld of Greek myth to explore the human soul.
Louise Glück, whose poetry has followed an individual, personal course from her first volumes, has said admiringly of John Berryman’s “Street” that it “is a poetry of mind, of mind processing...
22 lut 2017 · A small crater lake in southern Italy, Averno was regarded by the Romans as the entrance to the ancient underworld. Throughout this poetry collection, Louise Glück blends classic mythology with eternal musings, taking us to the depths of the underworld and back, in poems which explore the afterlife, love, isolation, oblivion, and the soul.
An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient...
8 lip 2014 · Averno: Poems. Louise Glück. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jul 8, 2014 - Poetry - 96 pages. A ravishing collection by Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Averno is a small...
1 lis 2006 · 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.
