Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology [Hardcover]

Deborah De Nicola (Editor)

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Publication Date: April 1, 1999

Today's poets provide a new spin on Greek myths.

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6 x 9 trim. LC 98-49534

Product Details

• Hardcover: 354 pages
• Publisher: UPNE (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874519179
• ISBN-13: 978-0874519174
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,046,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Deborah DeNicola's most recent publication is her collection of poems, Original Human from WordTech Communications, 2010. Her spiritual memoir The Future That Brought Her Here, released in June 2009 from Nicholas Hays /IBIS Press reached #1 in Psychology and Social Sciences on Amazon.com. In 2007 Finishing Line Press published Inside Light, a chapbook. Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, from The University Press of New England. She was awarded a Poetry Fellowship in 1997 from the National Endowment for the Arts, received The William T. Foley Award in 2000 from America, The Barbara Bradley Award in 1996 from The New England Poetry Club, and a Special Mention from The Pushcart Prizes. Deborah won first prize in 2009 from The Santa Barbara Poetry Contest and first prize from The Packingtown Review 2009 for a critical essay. Her work is included in The Best of the Web Anthology 2008. She also the author of Where Divinity Begins (Alice James Press) and three chapbooks, Harmony of the Next (forthcoming November 2005) which won the Riverstone Chapbook Award, Psyche Revisited (1992), which won the Embers Magazine Chapbook Contest, and Rainmakers (Coyote Love Press ). Deborah DeNicola's poems and reviews have been published in many anthologies and journals such as The North American Review, The Antioch Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fiction International, The Journal, The Boston Book Review, Prairie Schooner, Runes and Orion among others. Deborah trained in Embodied Dream Image Work for 8 years in a group with Dutch Analyst Robert Bosnak. She has taken numerous classes at the C. G. Jung Institutes in Zurich and Boston. A Bread Loaf Scholar (1993), a recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony (1994), The Centrum Foundation (1995), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1997), and The Vermont Studios (1999). She teaches poetry and dream image workshops in South Florida and reviews poetry for The Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel. Her website is www.intuitivegateways.com

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection on Myth Poems by well-known poets, October 8, 1999

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This review is from: Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (Hardcover)

This is a unique collection with selections by the most prominent poets of our time, featuring Mark STrand, Jorie Graham, Stephen Dobyns, Marilyn Hacker,Richard Howard, Nicholas Christopher, Linda Gregg, Jack Gilbert,Katha Pollitt, Rachel Hadas, Richard Jackson and others. It is borken into sections by myth and would be an excellent book to use for writing and/or literature courses. ALthough it does not cover every myth, it features the most well known.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful collection, April 17, 2002

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This review is from: Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (Paperback)

*Orpheus & Company* is a wonderful compendium of poetry inspired by the various gods and mortals of Greek mythology.

The poems found in the book are a wonderful starting point for anyone unfamliar with mythology. They give, in some cases, just enough of the story to tease, thereby prompting you to search out a copy of Hamilton's *Mythology* to learn the whole tale. And it is also a great book for those readers that have a fondness for mythology, though not necessarily poetry, simply because the form is so befitting of the topic, and the selections were, for the most part, meticulously chosen.

I, myself, was very pleased with the collection as a whole. And that included within its pages is Louise Gluck's *The Triumph of Achilles,* well, for that alone it won me over.

4.0 out of 5 stars Orpheus & Company - Decent Book, November 21, 2010

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This review is from: Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (Paperback)

I had to order this book for a college English class that I am taking. It is a decent book for the class. I like how everything is broken into the proper sections for what you are studying at the time.