Poetry. With a Foreword by Charles Martin. THE COSMIC PURR is the
first collection of original poetry from Aaron Poochigian,
well-known for his translations of Sappho, Aeschylus, Aratus and
Apollonius of Rhodes. From the mythical to everyday themes, from
the landscape of North Dakota to scenes in a bar, at a marriage
ceremony, before birth or before death, Poochigian's verse is
enlightened by uncommonly fresh wisdom, and deployed in the
delightfully masterful, elegant and naturally-flowing metrical
forms his translations are known for."Aaron Poochigian's technique
is masterly, the tone tends to be tart, disillusioned, cryptic, and
elegant, and it's easy to be beguiled by these poems' wit and
bravura. But the pyrotechnics are used to serious ends, and the
scenes that are fitfully illuminated, whether they occur in
landscapes as quotidian as contemporary North Dakota or as
otherworldly as mythical Greece, whether they are chilling or
exhilarating, are always immediate in their reality, and they speak
to the reader with a compelling cogency."--Dick Davis"Aaron
Poochigian is both a classicist and a neo-classical poet. By this I
mean that he prefers as subjects the common occasions of our lives
and articulates them uncommonly, in verse rich with the kind of
detail that becomes a style passed on in an act of friendship
between him and the poets of the past who have served as his
mentors."--Charles Martin"It is a delight to have some of Aaron
Poochigian's modern New York replies to famous Sappho poems.
Reading them is like eavesdropping on a New York wise guy
discussing the 'night before' with a classical scholar: sexy,
witty, learned, and moving. Worth hearing, worth re-reading,
too."--Diana Der-Hovanessian"What is the cosmic purr? Pussycat poet
Aaron Poochigian is the one to show us in his ebullient lines. He
returns where he started--to the northern plains--then spins on a
dime to the wider world 'where life was all night long / drinking
and dancing, bursting into song.' In 'The Parlor' he nods
ironically to his Armenian heritage, and a few pages later he
lights an elegiac candle for a dying friend. A major translator
from classical Greek, Poochigian offers in his own poetry a hip
formality, a timeless sense of the contemporary, and when he brings
the classics into this scene they live again as freshly as
ever."--David Mason
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