Henry Weinfield
WITHOUT MYTHOLOGIES: New & Selected Poems and Translations

Dos Madres Press
ISBN 10: 1-933675-26-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-933675-26-8
Paper, 182 pp., 6x9
$18.95

New and selected poems and translations by the eminent poet and critic spanning an almost forty-year period.

“The secret of this poet’s power lies in the music of his verse. If poetry consists foremost of harmony in words, Weinfield has perfect pitch! Whatever the subject, with the happy rhythms of dance and the lovely magic of verbal sound he always takes us along to that point, where all things and all words, even the most abstract, look new and fresh. This is a precious book.” —Louis Dupré

“A poet of exquisite formal control, Henry Weinfield writes lyrical and narrative poems that have a rich, sad music for which the ear and the heart hunger. This is a poetry to provoke and console, a poetry that has many roots in the Classical and Hebraic traditions and that combines and extends both in a unique way. His translations are superb, marking a level of achievement above that of all other American translators of European lyric poetry.” —Kevin Hart

Henry Weinfield’s collections of poetry include The Carnival Cantata, In the Sweetness of the New Time, Sonnets Elegiac and Satirical, The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems, and The Tears of the Muses.  His verse-translations include the Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé and the Theogony and Works and Days of Hesiod (done in collaboration with Catherine Schlegel). He holds a Ph.D. from the City University of New York and is a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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