{"product_id":"a-heaven-wrought-of-iron-poems-from-the-odyssey-9780990322139","title":"A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003eD. M. Spitzer's collection unfolds a poetic engagement with the Greek \u003ci\u003eOdyssey \u003c\/i\u003ewithin 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's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey \u003c\/i\u003eand from that of the poet-as-reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem in \u003ci\u003eA Heaven Wrought of Iron \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh approach to--and in collaboration with--the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey \u003c\/i\u003eby 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 the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. M. Spitzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Etruscan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780990322139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis current projects include a hybrid work called \u003ci\u003eGenealogy of the First Person\u003c\/i\u003e that treats some of the principal figures of the \u003ci\u003eBook of Genesis\u003c\/i\u003e as paradigmatic of a mode of consciousness; mousika, a collection of two poetic sequences: the first, \"quartet,\" takes up a conversation with T. S. Eliot's masterwork \"Four Quartets,\" while the second section, \"a symphony of psalms,\" works from an imaginative engagement with Igor Stravinsky's \"Symphony of Psalms;\" and a performance-poetry project, involving movement and costuming, called \"kata-strophe,\" which features three transfigured poems (Goethe's \"Erlkönig,\" Rilke's \"die Blinde,\" and Ovid's final scene of \u003ci\u003eOrpheus \u0026amp; Eurydike\u003c\/i\u003e [Book 10.56-61]). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Spitzer resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and their three children. He is currently a doctoral student in comparative literature at Binghamton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Etruscan Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40516633395315,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_78cf0868-ecbc-4965-afa4-937791cad347.jpg?v=1665840774","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-heaven-wrought-of-iron-poems-from-the-odyssey-9780990322139","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}