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"Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . Averno may be Gl?ck's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." --Nicholas Christopher, The New York Times Book Review

"Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Gl?ck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet's insight, a mother's warmth, and a mortal's empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope." -- The New Yorker

Chapter Page
The Night Migrations 1
I
October 5
Persephone the Wanderer 16
Prism 20
Crater Lake 28
Echoes 29
Fugue 31
II
The Evening Star 39
Landscape 40
A Myth of Innocence 50
Archaic Fragment 52
Blue Rotunda 53
A Myth of Devotion 58
Averno 60
Omens 70
Telescope 71
Thrush 72
Persephone the Wanderer 73
Notes 79

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 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. 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.

Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.