Anybody who knows me knows that I love the myth of Hades and Persephone, so much so that I'd read a handful of poems from this collection before. But reading Averno in its entirety, in a physical format, brought things into perspective. This is a book that begs me to write a paper on it. I haven't--yet, that is--but I have a document with my mad scribbles of analysis and theorizing saved to my computer.