After Ovid: New Metamorphoses by Hofmann, Michael

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374524784)

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After Ovid: New Metamorphoses by Hofmann, Michael

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

$27.00
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses by Hofmann, Michael

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

$27.00
Format: Paperback
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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses.

Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Medea, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice--these and many other immortal tales are given fresh and startling life in exciting new versions. The contributors--among them Fleur Adcock, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lawrence Joseph, Kenneth Koch, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Robert Pinsky, Frederick Seidel, Charles Simic, and C. K. Williams--constitute an impressive roster of today's major poets. After Ovid is a powerful re-envisioning of a fundamental work of literature as well as a remarkable affirmation of the current state of poetry in English.

Author: Michael Hofmann
ISBN-10: 0374524785
ISBN-13: 9780374524784
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1996
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.20w x 0.73d
By Michael Hofmann
By Michael Hofmann
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Michael Hofmann is a poet and frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost translators of works from German to English. He lives in London.
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two novels as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. He has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times, T. S. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry; and he was the winner of the inaugural U.K./BBC Short Story Prize. His nonfiction has been published in Harper's Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books.

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