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Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the
Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays
revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when
those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting
response. Until now English translations have failed to capture
Aristophanes's poetic genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first
poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, offers
"effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical" (Simon Armitage)
versions of four of Aristophanes's most entertaining, provocative
and lyrically ingenious comedies, finally giving
twenty-first-century readers a sense of the subversive pleasure
audiences felt when these works were first performed on the
Athenian stage.
We're born with a hunger for roots and a desire to pass on a
legacy. The past two decades have seen a boom in family history
services that combine genealogy with DNA testing, though this is
less a sign of a robust connection to past generations than of its
absence. Everywhere we see a pervasive rootlessness coupled with a
cult of youth that thinks there is little to learn from our elders.
The nursing home tragedies of the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare this
devaluing of the old. But it's not only the elderly who are
negatively affected when the links between generations break down;
the young lose out too. When the hollowing-out of intergenerational
connections deprives youth of the sense of belonging to a story
beyond themselves, other sources of identity, from trivial to
noxious, will fill the void. Yet however important biological
kinship is, the New Testament tells us it is less important than
the family called into being by God's promises. "Who is my mother,
and who are my brothers?" Jesus asks a crowd of listeners, then
answers: "Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my
brother, and sister, and mother." In this great intergenerational
family, we are linked by a bond of brotherhood and sisterhood to
believers from every era of the human story, past, present, and yet
to be born. To be sure, our biological families and inheritances
still matter, but heredity and blood kinship are no longer the
primary source of our identity. Here is a cure for rootlessness. On
this theme: - Matthew Lee Anderson argues that even in an age of
IVF no one has a right to have a child. - Emmanuel Katongole
describes how African Christians are responding to ecological
degradation by returning to their roots. - Louise Perry worries
that young environmentalist don't want kids. - Helmuth Eiwen asks
what we can do about the ongoing effects of the sins of our
ancestors. - Terence Sweeney misses an absent father who left him
nothing. - Wendy Kiyomi gives personal insight into the challenges
of adopting children with trauma in their past. - Alastair Roberts
decodes that long list of "begats" in Matthew's Gospel. - Rhys
Laverty explains why his hometown, Chessington, UK, is still a
family-friendly neighborhood. - Springs Toledo recounts, for the
first time, a buried family story of crime and forgiveness. -
Monica Pelliccia profiles three generations of women who feed
migrants riding the trains north. Also in the issue: - A new
Christmas story by Oscar Esquivias, translated from the Spanish -
Original poetry by Aaron Poochigian - Reviews of Kim
Haines-Eitzen's Sonorous Desert, Matthew P. Schneider's God Loves
the Autistic Mind, Adam Nicolson's Life between the Tides, and Ash
Davidson's Damnation Spring. - An appreciation for Augustine's
mother, Monica - Short sketches by Clarice Lispector of her father
and son Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for
people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each
issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews,
and art.
Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but
ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian
bohemian Charles Baudelaire, spent much of the 1840s composing
gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the
banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book
that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an
instant sensation-earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously,
disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had endured his own
public trial for published indecency (for Madame Bovary), a French
court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense against public morals
and six poems within it were immediately suppressed (a ruling that
would not be reversed until 1949, nearly a century after
Baudelaire's untimely death). Subsequent editions expanded on the
original, including new poems that have since been recognised as
Baudelaire's masterpieces, producing a body of work that stands as
the most consequential, controversial and influential book of
poetry from the nineteenth century. Acclaimed translator and poet
Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary text with an ear
attuned to Baudelaire's lyrical innovations-rendering them in "an
assertive blend of full and slant rhymes and fluent iambs" (A.E.
Stallings)-and an intuitive feel for the work's dark and brooding
mood. Poochigian's version captures the incantatory, almost
magical, effect of the original-reanimating for today's reader
Baudelaire's "unfailing vision" that "trumpeted the space and light
of the future" (Patti Smith). An introduction by Dana Gioia offers
a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of Baudelaire's
masterpiece, and an afterword by Daniel Handler explores its
continued relevance and appeal. Featuring the poems in English and
French, this deluxe dual-language edition allows readers to commune
both with the original poems and with these electric, revelatory
translations.
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical,
powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the
gods. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's
80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and
diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and
across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over
Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del
Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are
stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Sappho (c.630-570 BCE). Sappho's Stung with Love is
available in Penguin Classics.
Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but
ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles
Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing
gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the
banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book
that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an
instant sensation—earning Baudelaire plaudits and,
simultaneously, disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had
endured his own public trial for published indecency (for Madame
Bovary), a French court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense
against public morals and six poems within it were immediately
suppressed (a ruling that would not be reversed until 1949, nearly
a century after Baudelaire’s untimely death). Subsequent editions
expanded on the original, including new poems that have since been
recognized as Baudelaire’s masterpieces, producing a body of work
that stands as the most consequential, controversial and
influential book of poetry from the nineteenth century. Acclaimed
translator and poet Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary
text with an ear attuned to Baudelaire’s lyrical
innovations—rendering them in “an assertive blend of full and
slant rhymes and fluent iambs” (A. E. Stallings)—and an
intuitive feel for the work’s dark and brooding mood.
Poochigian’s version captures the incantatory, almost magical,
effect of the original—reanimating for today’s reader
Baudelaire’s “unfailing vision” that “trumpeted the space
and light of the future” (Patti Smith). An introduction by Dana
Gioia offers a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of
Baudelaire’s masterpiece, and an afterword by Daniel Handler
explores its continued relevance and appeal. Featuring the poems in
English and French, this deluxe dual-language edition allows
readers to commune both with the original poems and with these
electric, revelatory translations.
For the first time in Penguin Classics--the incomparable verse of
the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho, in a brilliant new translation
Sappho's writings are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in
the great library at Alexandria, but only one poem survives
complete. This new translation of all of Sappho's extant poetry
showcases the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous
songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation,
desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance. Aaron
Poochigian captures the eros and mystery of Sappho's verse,
bringing to readers of English the living voice of the poet Plato
called "the tenth Muse," whose lyric power remains undiminished
after 2,500 years.
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Apollonius of Rhodes; Introduction by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; Translated by Aaron Poochigian
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Now in a riveting new verse translation Jason and the Argonauts
(also known as the Argonautica), is the only surviving full account
of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided
by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in third century B.C.,
this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek
mythology, with its combination of the fantastical and the real,
its engagement with traditions of science, astronomy and medicine,
winged heroes, and a magical vessel that speaks, is truly without
exact parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature and is
now available in an accessible and engaging translation. Apollonius
of Rhodes published his first version of the Argonautica sometime
in the middle of the third century B.C. At the end of his life he
was director of the famous Library of Alexandria, which was the
principal storehouse of all literature and learning at the time.
Aaron Poochigian, born in 1973, is a poet and an associated
lecturer in Classics at The Ohio State University and has
translated the Penguin Classics edition of Stung with Love: Poems
and Fragments by Sappho, as well as works by Aeschylus and Aratus.
He lives in New York City. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Professor of
Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He is the author of
several works of nonfiction, including Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric
into Hellenistic Poetry.
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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