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xnnxjxrxi's review against another edition
fast-paced
4.25
i think i will need to revisit this a few times later in life to fully appreciate it
delaney_j's review
4.5
They say
there is a rift in the human soul
which was not constructed to belong
entirely to life.
there is a rift in the human soul
which was not constructed to belong
entirely to life.
listette's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
My first poetry collection from Louise Glück and I loved it!
It took me ages to read through Averno and while I love the themes and especially Persephone and Greek mythology as mediums, of sort, it is really difficult to read. I found myself struggling a lot with the pages but all in all a rewarding read I want to read immediately again!
It took me ages to read through Averno and while I love the themes and especially Persephone and Greek mythology as mediums, of sort, it is really difficult to read. I found myself struggling a lot with the pages but all in all a rewarding read I want to read immediately again!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
tarinisehgal's review
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
death can not harm me
more than you have harmed me
me beloved life
this collection has made me feel all the shrimp emotions
more than you have harmed me
me beloved life
this collection has made me feel all the shrimp emotions
lafoliedujour's review
4.0
"I used to sit there
pulling arrows out of my heart."
---
"But ignorance
cannot will knowledge. Ignorance
wills something imagined, which it believes exists."
---
"Nature, it turns out, isn't like us;
it doesn't have a warehouse of memory.
The field doesn't become afraid of matches,
of young girls. It doesn't remember
furrows either. It gets killed off, it gets burned,
and a year later it's alive again
as though nothing unusual has occurred."
---
"I rode to meet you: dreams
like living beings swarmed around me
and the moon on my right side
followed me, burning."
----
"the daughter's body
doesn't exist, except
as a branch of the mother's body
that needs to be
reattached at any cost."
pulling arrows out of my heart."
---
"But ignorance
cannot will knowledge. Ignorance
wills something imagined, which it believes exists."
---
"Nature, it turns out, isn't like us;
it doesn't have a warehouse of memory.
The field doesn't become afraid of matches,
of young girls. It doesn't remember
furrows either. It gets killed off, it gets burned,
and a year later it's alive again
as though nothing unusual has occurred."
---
"I rode to meet you: dreams
like living beings swarmed around me
and the moon on my right side
followed me, burning."
----
"the daughter's body
doesn't exist, except
as a branch of the mother's body
that needs to be
reattached at any cost."
casparb's review
do you remember that lovely garden guess what everything is snow snow snow bright bright dark leaves
I mentioned this briefly with The Wild Iris but even more present here is Little Gidding! Joy ! I want to quote from it but I want to quote too much -windless cold that is the heart's heat
Look October is kind of insurmountable it has a place in the landscape of the contemporary long poem which is oddly similar to LG's in the world of contemporary poetics - both unavoidable and invisible - present, undeniably! But undercover, under-studied. It's tepidity in purification it's wormwood at the core & a gathering unity ! in contraries
Fugue Hits!! Landscape and Blue Rotunda. I'm a fan of Thrush! Very much so !! Also a splendid Spinozism in the closer mwah
Something I'm not going to unpack now but curious to me is that I find myself drawn to poems -specifically here but I expect implicitly elsewhere - I can c0nceive of the poet sitting down and writing I can see these put to page & I find there's a curious (very exciting! A periphery!) gauze around these in certain poems which are exquisite ! and I find myself padding about them a fox at the tent. Perhaps I make poor practice
Averno you beauty where's my forgetful snow
I mentioned this briefly with The Wild Iris but even more present here is Little Gidding! Joy ! I want to quote from it but I want to quote too much -windless cold that is the heart's heat
Look October is kind of insurmountable it has a place in the landscape of the contemporary long poem which is oddly similar to LG's in the world of contemporary poetics - both unavoidable and invisible - present, undeniably! But undercover, under-studied. It's tepidity in purification it's wormwood at the core & a gathering unity ! in contraries
Fugue Hits!! Landscape and Blue Rotunda. I'm a fan of Thrush! Very much so !! Also a splendid Spinozism in the closer mwah
Something I'm not going to unpack now but curious to me is that I find myself drawn to poems -specifically here but I expect implicitly elsewhere - I can c0nceive of the poet sitting down and writing I can see these put to page & I find there's a curious (very exciting! A periphery!) gauze around these in certain poems which are exquisite ! and I find myself padding about them a fox at the tent. Perhaps I make poor practice
Averno you beauty where's my forgetful snow
alexiconeternal's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book was a macabre, enchanting, depressing, romantic, hauntingly beautiful read. I wasn't sure if I wanted to devour it as quickly as possible or savour every poem ten times through. In the end, it's a collection that deserves a place on my shelf that's easily accessible; I'll be reading through these again and again.