New Songs for Orpheus: Volume 75

by John Reibetanz

Book Overview

For a change Orpheus / listens to the other / musicians once the hum / of his lyre no longer / hangs like moss from branches / in the forest air In New Songs for OrpheusJohn Reibetanz updates Ovid's poetry. Ovid's words showed him to be a person of deep empathy for natural, animal, and human worlds, and so Reibetanz posits that the Roman writer would likely be eager to take account of all that we have learned about them in the past two thousand years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228016940
• ISBN13: 9780228016946
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 7.4"