D. M. Spitzer's collection unfolds a poetic engagement with the GreekOdysseywithin the framework of the ancient epic: twenty-four books and a well-known and complex narrative architecture. The poems inhabit a range of voices and perspectives drawn from both the world of Homer'sOdysseyand from that of the poet-as-reader.
Each poem inA Heaven Wrought of Ironoffers a fresh approach to—and in collaboration with—theOdysseyby weaving together translated fragments from the Greek text with a sequence of poems drawn from a close reading of and an imaginative, intellectual engagement with theOdyssey.
A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odysseyoffers a fresh approach to -- and a collaboration with -- theOdysseyby weaving together translated fragments from the Greek text of theOdysseywith a sequence of poems drawn from a close reading of and an imaginative, intellectual engagement with theOdyssey.
Readers interested in contemporary poetry, ancient Greece, Homer, and/or classical literature may be drawn to this work because it presents an informed, sustained, poetic conversation between a contemporary poet and the poet at the threshold of the western literary tradition.
General readership with some or no prior knowledge of theOdysseymay find some exciting invitations to pursue that great work as well as a literary project of its own merit, while a readership acquainted with Homeric poetry may be fascinated and challenged to renew their thinking about theOdyssey, its themes, and motivating ideas.
After pursuing graduate studies in political thought, philosophy, and classics, D. M. Spitzer completed a Master of Fine Arts in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
His current projects include a hybrid work calledGenealogy of the First Personthat treats some of the principal figures of theBook of Genesisas pl£P
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