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Publisher Comments
Averno 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 eleventh collection: 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 po... read more>>>
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Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Jeanne
A beautiful and mysterious book by Vermont's poet laureate. Here, along side the quiet, often pain-filled reflections of the speaker, the voices of nature are also given their say. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize.
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Publisher CommentsSince, 1990, Louise GlÜck has been exploring a form that is, according to poet Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova -- like its immediate predecessors, a book-length sequence -- combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild Iris with the worldly dramas elaborated in Meadowlands. Vita Nova is a book that exists in the long moment of spring, a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope, brutal, luminous, and farseeing. Like... read more>>>
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