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Facilis Descensus Averno

Averno is a crater lake west of Naples that the ancient Romans saw as the gateway to the underworld and that Glück uses as a unifying metaphor for a book about the dialogue between life and death that intensifies in the last trimester of life.

2008 January 25 « One-Minute Book Reviews

She is the author of eleven books of poetry, including, most recently, Averno Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.

The Best American Poetry 2008

This interpretation suggests the fatalistic vision of Averno, a collection of linked poems that glide back and forth between myth and modern life.

2008 January 25 « One-Minute Book Reviews

_Facilis descensus Averno_, and I suppose Mr. Henderson, in his statement, is trying to save me from the inconveniences of this trip.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster

It should be "facilis descensus Averno," _easy is the descent to Avernus_.

The Short-story

"Facilis descensus Averno; sed revocare gradum, hoc opus, hic labor est."

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

Pallas and Diana in the Sicilian mountains -- altior ac nulla comitum certante, prius quam palluit et viso pulsus decor omnis Averno (v. 346).

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

Do you intend to restrict the family to the back stairs, which by your showing are, like the famous _descensus Averno_, wonderfully easy to go down, but mighty hard to get up again?

Homes and How to Make Them

It is useless now to go into discussions of how better measures might have been obtained, or how bad ones might have been avoided -- the whole is a striking illustration of the evils attending first departures from principle -- the "facilis descencus Averno."

The Great Speech of Hon. A.H. Stephens, Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, on Wednesday Night, March 16th, 1864, to which is Added Extracts prom [sic] Gov. Brown's Message to the Georgia Legislature.