New Songs for Orpheus by John Reibetanz (2023, Trade Paperback)

New Songs for Orpheus by John Reibetanz (2023, Trade Paperback)

McGill-Queen's University Press

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\nIn New Songs for OrpheusJohn Reibetanz updates Ovid\u2019s poetry. Ovid\u2019s 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.\nOvid would be familiar with recent discoveries about the complex inner lives and societies of non-human animals, and about the intricate interrelationships sustained in forests. The poems in New Songs for Orpheus look at and listen to the real creatures into which Ovid\u2019s characters were transformed, acts viewed not as punishment or\n\nNew Songs for Orpheus\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price advertise;

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