{"product_id":"a-heaven-wrought-of-iron-poems-from-the-odyssey-paperback","title":"A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. M. Spitzer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53849870106931,"sku":"9780990322139","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/clyyLuHgSh9780990322139.webp?v=1786587468","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-heaven-wrought-of-iron-poems-from-the-odyssey-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}