Martin, like Swift, is a master of the English language…an outstanding translator of the Roman poets Catullus and Ovid, Martin has a range unusual among contemporary poets.

--George Held, The Philadelphia Inquirer

 

 

 

Now in Paperback

Ovid’s Metamorphoses
A New Verse Translation by Charles Martin
Foreword by Bernard Knox,
W.W. Norton

WINNER 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
from The Academy of American Poets

"Long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post


   

 

New

Starting From Sleep: New and Selected Poems
Sewanee Writers’ Series/ Overlook Press

Finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award
from The Academy of American Poets