具体描述
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.
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.
目录信息
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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读后感
用户评价
Unfathomable depths, spooky with style.
是今年最喜欢的生日礼物 Averno是炼狱的入口
The impression I had during and after reading the poems was placid. It's like listening to grandma talking about life and death — especially death — with peace and even longing. Persephone returns and we have spring. But the concept of return is dubious itself. Is rebirth after death still life then? Still I'd hold a hope for an everlasting life.
“Prism” and “October”. The assignment was to fall in love. The author was female. The ego had to be called the soul. The action took place in the body. Stars represented everything else: dreams, the mind, etc. The beloved was identified with the self in a narcissistic projection. The mind was a subplot. It went nattering on.
“Averno. Ancient name Avernus. A small crater lake, ten miles west of Naples, Italy; regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. ”