false 807673 0374107424 9780374107420 16 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178571141m/807673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807673.Averno_Poems 388727 Louise Glück 2457 223 4 0 false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 18:02:34 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 15:11:50 -0700 2009 you are not alone,/the poem said,/in the dark tunnel” (p 14), and then the wry humor and intelligence of the mythic poems like “Persephone the Wanderer,” which reminds the reader: “You are allowed to like/no one, you know. The characters/are not people.” (p 16). Other highlights: the wintry world of the second section of “Landscape,” “A Myth of Innocence” and “A Myth of Devotion,” the first stanza of “Telescope,” which describes the moment of disorientation after looking through a telescope, coming back to earth when you’ve been among the stars—which isn’t too dissimilar to the moment of emerging from a book you’ve been lost in.]]>