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A review by aprilhenrist
Averno by Louise Glück
5.0
“I know what you want-
you want Orpheus, you want death.
Orpheus who said "Help me find Eurydice."
Then the music began, the lament of the soul
watching the body vanish.”
Louise Glück’s Averno ponders questions of sorrow, grief, death, choice, and counterintuitively comfort within them. A masterpiece and mirror to one’s own soul, Glück has never disappointed me with her poetry.
you want Orpheus, you want death.
Orpheus who said "Help me find Eurydice."
Then the music began, the lament of the soul
watching the body vanish.”
Louise Glück’s Averno ponders questions of sorrow, grief, death, choice, and counterintuitively comfort within them. A masterpiece and mirror to one’s own soul, Glück has never disappointed me with her poetry.