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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Boer, Charles
Naso, Publius Ovidius

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0882141694
ISBN13: 9780882141695
Publisher: Spring Publications
Published: Mar 19 2024
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a striking translation. In this tour de force, all the classic tales of Western mythology come to life.
With 15 ills.

Charles Boer has reshaped the Metamorphoses in a way Olson, Zukofsky, and Pound would have approved of, making us see the poem's violence, turbulence, and angular strangeness. Every age refinds the classics in its own way: Boer sees Ovid's primitive energy and gives us a poem we can place beside Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a harsher, more staccato, louder Ovid than were used to, but also a more vivid one.-Guy Davenport

This is the authentic Ovid, the feeling, the pulse, the mental and vocal style of a vanished people. Boer has found this hidden beat, and the eerie excitement in every line shows me what veils have lain between us and the ancients up till now . . . This is what the ancients were sitting still for, nothing less, of that I'm certain. -William Kotzwinkle

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