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D. M. Spitzer's collection unfolds a poetic engagement with the Greek Odyssey within the framework of the ancient epic: twenty-four books and a well-known and complex narrative architecture. The poems inhabit a range of voices and perspectives drawn from both the world of Homer's Odyssey and from that of the poet-as-reader.
Each poem in A Heaven Wrought of Iron offers a fresh approach to—and in collaboration with—the Odyssey by weaving together translated fragments from the Greek text with a sequence of poems drawn from a close reading of and an imaginative, intellectual engagement with the Odyssey.
His current projects include a hybrid work called Genealogy of the First Person that treats some of the principal figures of the Book of Genesis as paradigmatic of a mode of consciousness; mousika, a collection of two poetic sequences: the first, “quartet,” takes up a conversation with T. S. Eliot’s masterwork “Four Quartets,” while the second section, “a symphony of psalms,” works from an imaginative engagement with Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms;” and a performance-poetry project, involving movement and costuming, called “kata-strophe,” which features three transfigured poems (Goethe’s “Erlkönig,” Rilke’s “die Blinde,” and Ovid’s final scene of Orpheus & Eurydike [Book 10.56-61]).
Mr. Spitzer resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and their three children. He is currently a doctoral student in comparative literature at Binghamton University.
ODYSSEY I: TURNING
ODYSSEY II: ORIENTATION
ODYSSEY III: GATEWAY
ODYSSEY IV: THE VOICES OF GHOSTS
ODYSSEY V: DISINTEGRATION
ODYSSEY VI: LIMINALITY
ODYSSEY VII: NOSTALGIA
ODYSSEY VIII: GENESIS
ODYSSEY IX: MYTHOLOGY I
ODYSSEY X: MYTHOLOGY II
ODYSSEY XI: MYTHOLOGY III
ODYSSEY XII: MYTHOLOGY IV
ODYSSEY XIII: HYPNOSIS
ODYSSEY XIV: THE SELF AS OTHER
ODYSSEY XV: SKYSIGNS
ODYSSEY XVI: REVELATIONS I
ODYSSEY XVII: THRESHOLD
ODYSSEY XVIII: OVERTURES
ODYSSEY XIX: REVELATIONS II
ODYSSEY XX: ALLEGIANCES & SILENCE
ODYSSEY XXI: TENSION, URGENCY, EMERGENCE
ODYSSEY XXII: REVELATIONS III
ODYSSEY XXIII: EUTHANASIA, OR THE BOOK OF LOSS
ODYSSEY XXIV: THEODICY