Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry.
Skillfully combining intricate patterns of sound and classical precedent with the very modern concerns of sex, gender, love, death, and technology, these Poems speak with a twenty-fir.
In After Callimachus, esteemed poet and critic Stephanie Burt\'s attentive translations and inspired adaptations introduce the work, spirit, and letter of Callimachus to today\'s poetry readers.
Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now.
An informative foreword by classicist Mark Payne places Burt\'s renderings of Callimachus in literary and historical context.
After Callimachus is at once a contribution to contemporary poetry and a new endeavor in the art of classical adaptation and translation.-- Publishers Weekly Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie Burt Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry.
Here is an ancient Greek poet made fresh for our current times.
Burt bears careful fealty to Callimachus\'s whole poems, even as she builds freely from some of the hundreds of surviving fragments.
This reimagined poet also visits airports, uses Tumblr and Twitter, listens to pop music, and fights contemporary patriarchy.
This Callimachus travels the Mediterranean, pays homage to Athena and Zeus, develops erotic fixations, practices funerary commemoration, and brings fresh gifts for the cult of Artemis.
In After Callimachus, esteemed poet and critic Stephanie Burt\'s attentive translations and inspired adaptations introduce the work, spirit, and letter of Callimachus to today\'s poetry readers.
Skillfully combining intricate patterns of sound and classical precedent with the very modern concerns of sex, gender, love, death, and technology, these Poems speak with a twenty-first century voice, while also opening multiple gateways to ancient worlds.
Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now.
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry
