{"product_id":"averno-by-louise-gluck-9780241526002","title":"Averno","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA widely revered collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet, publishing in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of \u003cem\u003eAverno\u003c\/em\u003e, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abducted girl's equivocal memories, a farmer's lament for a lost harvest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet's luminous wit. Together, the poems of \u003cem\u003eAverno\u003c\/em\u003e swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46249854763244,"sku":"9780241526002","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241526002.jpg?v=1741562563","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/averno-by-louise-gluck-9780241526002","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}