{"product_id":"averno-poems-9780374530747","title":"Averno: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAverno 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 Gl ck'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. \u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Glück\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2014 National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize for \u003ci\u003ePoems: 1962-2012\u003c\/i\u003e, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606857191698,"sku":"9780374530747","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76369406-a17d-4232-ba94-84cc39e2d576.jpg?v=1732300631","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/averno-poems-9780374530747","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}