Louise Glück

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.

Poems

Averno

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How privileged you are, to be still passionately clinging to what you love; the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you. Maestoso, doloroso: This is the light of autumn; it has turned on us. Surely it is a privilege to approach the end still believing in something.

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too high on the pole, if you know what I mean.

previsoko na jarbolu, ako znate na što mislim.

All your life, you wait for the propitious time.

incomparably beautiful and the memory of it 

ni s čime ne može usporediti, a uspomena na njega

wills something imagined, which it believes exists

priziva nešto zamišljeno, što ono vjeruje da postoji.

This was, for me, an extravagantly emotional gesture.

To je bila, za mene, pretjerano osjećajna gesta.

There is a moment after you move your eye away 

somewhere else, in the silence of the night sky.

zato što si dotad živjela, čini ti se,

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