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Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology

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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.

*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.

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.