Michael Hofmann; James Lasdun [editors] — After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

London, Faber and Faber, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of this collection of poetry inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. First edition, first impression. A collection of poems inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, which chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar in a mythico-historical framework. The editors commissioned forty-two poets from America, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand to "translate, reinterpret, reflect on, or completely reimagine" Ovid's famous work, including Alice Fulton, C.K. Williams, Mark Rudman, Seamus Heaney, and Ted Hughes. Edited by Michael Hofmann, a German-born poet, translator, and critic, and James Lasdun, an English novelist and poet. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.