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Len Krisak
Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon, Prudentius’ vivid collection of lyric hymns in honor of Christian martyrs.
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Afterimage, by Len Krisak, is a masterfully-crafted collection of poems in which we see the persistence of history into the present - the ancient market under the polish of urban…
In exquisitely crafted poems, Len Krisak’s Say What You Will muses on topics in present-day and historic settings and relevance: ancient Tiberius, modern-day Halloween, cinema icons, and famous artwork, to…
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Joseph Pucci
Ovid
Translated by award-winning poet Len Krisak, Ovid’s Erotic Poems offers a fresh modern take on the renowned Roman’s sophisticated satirical verse on love, sex, marriage, and adultery.
Virgil
This new translation by poet Len Krisak of Virgil’s classic of pastoral verse captures both the meaning and meter of the original. The text features the English and original Latin…
Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down on the English poetic tradition by also featuring rhyme.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
A new translation of Rilke’s groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows.
