Averno
内容简介
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 Gluck'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.
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作者简介
Louise Glück has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bollingen Prize, and is the former Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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目录
CONTENTS
The Night Migrations
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I
October
Persephone The Wanderer
Prism
Crater Lake
Echoes
Fugue
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II
The Evening Star
Landscape
A Myth of Innocence
Archaic Fragment
Blue Rotunda
A Myth of Devotion
Averno
Omens
Telescope
Thrush
Persephone The Wanderer
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读书文摘
death cannot harm me more than you have harmed me, my beloved life.
What others found in art, I found in nature. What others found in human love, I found in nature.
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