"Chasing Catullus ventures into the border territory, the
no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems
with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly re-imagining
classical literature, and wittily subverting epic works. But there
is a more personal journey here too. As Balmer points out in her
preface, classical translation can provide poets with new voices,
allowing them "to say the unsayable, to give shape to horrors we
might otherwise be unable to outline." It also presents a dark
odyssey of the soul, descending in and out of the underworld as
Balmer responds to the death of her young niece from cancer,
exploring difficult times and dangerous emotions with compassion
and humor. These are poems that blur the difference between ancient
and modern, familiar and unfamiliar: poems that push back the
boundaries, bringing two-thousand-year-old jokes lo life, giving
voice to contemporary loss and grief.
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