Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths

ISBN-13: 9780195133417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str.

Nina Kossman; Nina Kossman

Opis

From Valery, Yeats, Lawrence, Rilke, Akhmatova, and Auden writing in the first half of the century to such contemporary poets as Lucille Clifton, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Wislawa Szymborska, and Mark Strand, the material of Greek myth has elicited a poetry of remarkably high achievement. And by organizing the poems first into broad categories such as "Heroes," "Lovers," "Trespassers," and secondly around particular mythological figures such as Persephone, Orpheus, or Narcissus, Kossman treats readers to a fascinating spectrum of poems on the same subject.

O autorze

Nina Kossman is the author of several books of poetry in Russian and English as well as a collection of short narratives. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, hse has translated two volumes of Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry. Her fiction wona UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award in London and was broadcast on the BBC World Service.