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
「Telescope」is my self-portrait
渐至暮年,关注点转向生死。对女性、情感的重点,也从自身转向众生。小孩业已成年。关于文字和形式的可能性。看诗人沿年作品,也如同看到她一生的轨迹,颇有意思。
深邃的神话音色,很少见了。凄凉大地上的漂泊者,废墟间的回音和影像,所见所闻都不清晰。在稍长一点的组诗中,诗行的推进有种肃穆感;一种独特的力量。
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.
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.