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Averno

Name: Averno
ISBN: 0374530742

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 tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway t

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“You get on a train, you disappear. You write your name on the window, you disappear. There are places like this everywhere, places you enter as a young girl from which you never return.”

— Louise Glück, amazon.com

Tagged: Escapism, Get Away, Growing Pains, Self Discovery, Poetry