For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus Bound as part of a tragic trilogy, and this translation is unique in including the extant fragments of the companion plays.
For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winne...
"Line Break" is the major work on poetry as social practice and a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary criticism or poetry. For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry in theory and in practice, in how it is lived as well as in how it is written. In eight provocative essays, James Scully argues provocatively for artistic and cultural practice that actively opposes structures of power too often reinforced by intellectual activities."
"Line Break" is the major work on poetry as social practice and a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary criticism or poetry. For many years,...
These are post-9/11 poems examining such issues as the Holocaust, the prison scandals in Iraq, and other human rights violations.
Written as the war on terror morphed into an imperial war, "Donatello's Version" carries on the public poetry tradition of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Horace, Juvenal, Dante, Milton, Blake, and others. These poems arise from the premise that words matter, that the "res publica" (the human value that individuals in a community place above their own self-interest) also matters, and that the voice of the poet can make a difference.
In "Donatello's Version, "...
These are post-9/11 poems examining such issues as the Holocaust, the prison scandals in Iraq, and other human rights violations.
