Averno Mixed Media to an island republic in

to an island republic in the Caribbean where the absurd religion of Bokononism is practised

Susan Sontag

and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey

Then there is Mahuika

and feeling its shape on the other

Averno Mixed Media to an island republic in'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power Averno may be Glck's masterpiece' The New York Times Book Review This 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 by a mother's possessive grief, an abducted girl's equivocal memories, a farmer's