Tibullus is one of the three great Roman elegists. In this volume, the award-winning poet A. M. Juster provides a faithful and stylish new translation of his major work, with parallel Latin text. The Introduction considers Tibullus' poems in the context of classical elegy and in particular the elegies of his contemporaries, Ovid and Propertius, and discusses the influence of his patron Messalla in the reign of Augustus. Finally, Maltby's comprehensive notes explain topical, literary, and mythological allusions and identify major themes. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Elegies: With Parallel Latin Text (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Juster, A. M.

Maltby, Robert

Tibullus

Poetry

Oxford University Press

If, as William Blake insisted, “Opposition is True Friendship,” A. M. Juster and Billy Collins should be bosom buddies. The two poets are complete opposites, Juster a formalist, a classicist; Collins, a populist free-verser. But this hilarious collection brings them together as a comedy team, albeit Collins may chafe at having to play the straight man. After all, it is unmistakably Collins’s signature style that Juster has borrowed to create these poems. Nearly every line is a side-splitting punch line, and poor Billy Collins is the punching bag! Somehow I think that when he comes to, Collins will blurrily recognize his opponent and be elated: “Hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable, mon frère!”—for who else could have mimic’d his voice so precisely? This is one of those rare occasions when both the original and the imitation are sui generis—like Jackie Gleason and Fred Flintstone! —Alfred Nicol
 This wonderfully playful and jubilant collection is just what we need now: a smart take on poetry and the reasons for writing it. A. M. Juster lets go the starch in poetic diction and comes up with irony, satire, self-satire, good humor—and some of the loveliest lines around. “The house was quiet, / the light in the room more like a snowy air,” he writes, and “The bright obvious / stands motionless in the cold.” —Kelly Cherry

The Billy Collins Experience

Aldrich Press

The Secret Language of Women by A.M. Juster, recipient of the 2002 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkably versatile collection of finely crafted poems and translations. Equually adept at satires, lyrics, epigrams and narratives, Juster meticulously crafts each of his poems so that they resonate uniquely and unexpectedly in his readers' minds. Mona Van Duyn, who chose Juster's sonnet "Moscow Zoo" for the Howard Nemerov Award, remarked how effortlessly "the poem drops without heaviness into its depth," and W.D. Snodgrass described another of Juster's award winning poems as "full of surprises" and "full of invention." In an era of endlessly dull and familiar lyrics, Juster's verse marks itself as strikingly different and permanent, both in its use of form and its subtlely of meaning. As Rhina P. Espaillat has commented on the wide-ranging poems in The Secret Language of Women, "Poems that work this hard in the reader's mind, and do it with such grace and wit that the work is also play, make me grateful that I can read."

The Secret Language of Women: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 5)

Univ of Evansville Pr

"Page after page, the poems strike home."âe*Dana Gioia Wonder and Wrath is the latest book of original and translated poetry from A. M. Juster, one of America's most respected poets and translators. These poems display great formal accomplishment and deliver pleasure in the act of reading them--especially aloud. Rooted in the tradition, the poems inWonder and Wrath have appeared inPoetry,The Hudson Review,Rattle and many other top journals. Read this book of poems from start to finish; you'll enjoy every one of them!

Wonder and Wrath

Paul Dry Books

Emily Wilson, the noted translator of The Odyssey, has written that “A.M. Juster’s translation of Milton’s elegiac verse, rendered in elegant English elegiacs, provides Latin-less readers with a readable, accurate, metrical rendering of this important and undeservedly neglected set of poems, accompanied by useful notes and introduction. By writing these poems, the young John Milton defined himself as a master of Latin verse form, but also explored love, friendship, poetics, obedience and revolution, in ways that are related to, but fascinatingly different from, his later English-language poetry. Juster makes the young Milton live again, in a fresh and contemporary idiom.”Juster is also the translator of Horace’s Satires (University of Pennsylvania Press 2008), Tibullus’ Elegies (Oxford University Press 2012), Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles (University of Toronto Press 2016) and The Elegies of Maximianus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018). His poems and translations have won many top awards, and appeared in such journals as Poetry, Hudson Review, Paris Review, Arion and Rattle.Juster is donating all royalties from this book to the Reginald Foster Scholarship Fund. The fund was established to honor Fr. Reginald Foster, the first American to serve as Papal Latin Secretary, and the world's most enthusiastic promoter of the Latin language. The fund supports scholarships for students who wish to participate in Latin programs with Fr. Foster or the Paideia Institute.

John Milton's the Book of Elegies: Translated by A. M. Juster

Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc.

The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues the tradition of memorable poetry from the Powow River Poets. This group of uniquely talented, award-winning writers is centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but includes members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. Twenty-seven poets are represented in this volume of the anthology, including Rhina P. Espaillat, A.M. Juster, and Deborah Warren. Here, find masterful poems in form and free verse, on an eclectic range of subjects spanning the domestic to the global, celebrations to mourning, the whimsical to the heartbreaking. It is especially a showcase of the formal prowess of these accomplished poets. The dazzling array of given and nonce forms, including blank verse, triolet, abecedarian, sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and more will inspire with many examples of craftsmanship heightening emotional engagement and insight. PRAISE FOR THE POWOW RIVER POETS ANTHOLOGY II Dedicated to the late Powow River Poet, David Berman, The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues in the splendid tradition of the group's previous tome, published in 2006. Twenty-seven poets touch on themes ranging from the simple joys of friendship, nature, and art, to the complex issues of faith and doubt, love and loss. Guffaw-inducing humor and biting wit abound, as well as solemn reflections on suicide, domestic violence, social injustice, betrayal, illness, aging, and death. In Rhina P. Espaillat's beautiful villanelle, "Guidelines," included in this collection, the poet wisely urges us to find something to love, perhaps "a line of verse . . . that feels like the world's heart since time began." Beyond question, the poems in The Powow River Poets Anthology II echo the world's heart. -Catherine Chandler, author of Pointing Home It might be far-fetched to suggest that the Muses have sprinkled a generous share of their gifts into the waters of the Powow River . . . near] the historic town of Newburyport . . . where the Powow River Poets established their home base three decades ago-but how else to explain the lyric fluency, robust talent, and refreshing wit that consistently distinguish this group? -Leslie Monsour (from the introduction), author of The House Sitter The Powow River Poets are a group known for their concern with the craftsmanship of verse, and for the formal dexterity and precision of their poems-qualities profusely exemplified in this new collection. As might be expected, there are tricky forms in abundance here-sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina-but what is so memorable about so many of the poems is their continual precision of observation and depth of nuanced feeling. To paraphrase Pope, come for the flow of reason, stay for the feast of soul. This is a really delightfully various and moving collection, one to browse happily in and return to often. -Dick Davis, author of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Powow River Poets are a gathering of widely published, award-winning New England poets, centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but including members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. More about the Powow River Poets can be found at powowriverpoets.com.

The Powow River Poets Anthology II

Warren, Deborah

Espaillat, Rhina P.

Turco, Paulette Demers

Able Muse Press

The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues the tradition of memorable poetry from the Powow River Poets. This group of uniquely talented, award-winning writers is centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but includes members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. Twenty-seven poets are represented in this volume of the anthology, including Rhina P. Espaillat, A.M. Juster, and Deborah Warren. Here, find masterful poems in form and free verse, on an eclectic range of subjects spanning the domestic to the global, celebrations to mourning, the whimsical to the heartbreaking. It is especially a showcase of the formal prowess of these accomplished poets. The dazzling array of given and nonce forms, including blank verse, triolet, abecedarian, sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and more will inspire with many examples of craftsmanship heightening emotional engagement and insight. PRAISE FOR THE POWOW RIVER POETS ANTHOLOGY II: Dedicated to the late Powow River Poet, David Berman, The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues in the splendid tradition of the group's previous tome, published in 2006. Twenty-seven poets touch on themes ranging from the simple joys of friendship, nature, and art, to the complex issues of faith and doubt, love and loss. Guffaw-inducing humor and biting wit abound, as well as solemn reflections on suicide, domestic violence, social injustice, betrayal, illness, aging, and death. In Rhina P. Espaillat's beautiful villanelle, "Guidelines," included in this collection, the poet wisely urges us to find something to love, perhaps "a line of verse . . . that feels like the world's heart since time began." Beyond question, the poems in The Powow River Poets Anthology II echo the world's heart. -Catherine Chandler, author of Pointing Home It might be far-fetched to suggest that the Muses have sprinkled a generous share of their gifts into the waters of the Powow River . . . [near] the historic town of Newburyport . . . where the Powow River Poets established their home base three decades ago-but how else to explain the lyric fluency, robust talent, and refreshing wit that consistently distinguish this group? -Leslie Monsour (from the introduction), author of The House Sitter The Powow River Poets are a group known for their concern with the craftsmanship of verse, and for the formal dexterity and precision of their poems-qualities profusely exemplified in this new collection. As might be expected, there are tricky forms in abundance here-sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina-but what is so memorable about so many of the poems is their continual precision of observation and depth of nuanced feeling. To paraphrase Pope, come for the flow of reason, stay for the feast of soul. This is a really delightfully various and moving collection, one to browse happily in and return to often. -Dick Davis, author of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Powow River Poets are a gathering of widely published, award-winning New England poets, centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but including members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. More about the Powow River Poets can be found at powowriverpoets.com.

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Elegies: With Parallel Latin Text (Oxford World's Classics)

The Billy Collins Experience

The Secret Language of Women: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 5)

Wonder and Wrath

John Milton's the Book of Elegies: Translated by A. M. Juster

The Powow River Poets Anthology II

The Powow River Poets Anthology II