Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the play. Brimming with lusty comedy and horror, this new version of Euripides' only extant satyr play has been refreshed with all the salty humor, vigorous music, and dramatic shapeliness available in modern American English. Driven by storms onto the shores of the Cyclops' island, Odysseus and his men find that the Cyclops has already enslaved a company of Greeks. When some of Odysseus' crew are seized and eaten by the Cyclops, Odysseus resorts to spectacular stratagems to free his crew and escape the island. In this powerful work, prize-winning poet Heather McHugh and respected classicist David Konstan combine their talents to create this unusually strong and contemporary tragic-comedy marked by lively lyricism and moral subtlety.

Cyclops (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Literature & Fiction

McHugh, Heather

Eurípides

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

Dangers a book of poems

Poetry

Houghton/Mifflin

Dangers: Poems (The Houghton Mifflin new poetry series)

A world of difference: Poems

A world of difference : poems

Shades (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Shades is a book of shadow and light cast between trees and sun, between day and room, between life and death. It acknowledges endings as beginnings; it offers compassion and tenderness, searching for hope in the richness of nature; it seeks the same resources within the human being. Heather McHugh's companion volume to To the Quick (Wesleyan 1987) continues the music and brilliance characteristic of her work but moves more deeply into the metaphysical. She writes in paradox, with serious wit and intensity, the crafted language of "stitches in hand and birds in time"; "We part/ before we part; indeed,/ we part before we meet…" She studies "going matched with coming." She begins with a series of elegies that bring sexuality and death into brutal juxtaposition. Living and dying are the occasions of these poems, the soul the ultimate concern. This poetry takes to heart the fundamental strangeness of being.

Wesleyan University Press

A renowned poet’s artful collection is a striking body of work

Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993

Shades is a book of shadow and light cast between trees and sun, between day and room, between life and death. It acknowledges endings as beginnings; it offers compassion and tenderness, searching for hope in the richness of nature; it seeks the same resources within the human being.Heather McHugh’s companion volume to To the Quick (Wesleyan 1987) continues the music and brilliance characteristic of her work but moves more deeply into the metaphysical. She writes in paradox, with serious wit and intensity, the crafted language of “stitches in hand and birds in time”; “We part/ before we part; indeed,/ we part before we meet…” She studies “going matched with coming.” She begins with a series of elegies that bring sexuality and death into brutal juxtaposition. Living and dying are the occasions of these poems, the soul the ultimate concern. This poetry takes to heart the fundamental strangeness of being.

Words and forms challenge each other in a collection of new poems and selections from the author's five previous books

Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968–1993 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

To the Quick (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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Cyclops (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Dangers a book of poems

Dangers: Poems (The Houghton Mifflin new poetry series)

A world of difference: Poems

A world of difference : poems

Shades (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993

Shades (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968–1993 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

To the Quick (Wesleyan Poetry Series)