{"product_id":"averno","title":"Averno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, 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 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– by a mother's possessive grief, an abducted girl's equivocal memories, a farmer's lament for a lost harvest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet's luminous wit. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTogether, 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Gluck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43106973810945,"sku":"9780241526002","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-51.png?v=1688572629","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/averno","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}