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Audiobooks. Epic poetry. Essais fictionnels. Poetry poetry Poetry. poetry. Poésie. Translations Translations.Homer
Summary: Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMHomer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Parmenides Audio 2006
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Summary: When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legend HomerTranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRARoberts, Tomos
Summary: A narrator describes life before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the social and personal changes that followed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBTranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRAFoster, Linda Nemec
Summary: The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a new tale that feels familiar. The breeze off the lake, the sand underfoot, the supreme sadness of being young and not in control-these sensations come rushing back page-by-page, bringing to life an ancient myth of coming of age in a troubled world. Freed from the minds of Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen, the Lake Michigan mermaid serves as a voice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018