Averno
2006 • 100 pages

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An eleventh collection of works by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer takes its inspiration from a small crater lake in southern Italy and is an extended lamentation that evaluates Averno's existence in a winter landscape and role as a doorway between worlds. Reprint.

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Kind of underwhelming? I need to read The Wild Iris, I guess. Surprised this won a Nobel.

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