Orpheus by Theo Dorgan Robin Robertson The Letters of Sylvia Plath

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

perhaps the most masterfully elegant and majestic among the living voices of a generation that boasts more than its share of world-class poets

already known for translations of Mexican poets

successful and otherwise

these poems dissolve the boundaries between historical record

Orpheus by Theo Dorgan Robin Robertson The Letters of Sylvia PlathIn a book presented in two halves, and composed throughout in sapphics in English, one of the most challenging of poetic forms Dorgans contemporary Orpheus is part drifter, part troubadour, part lover, recognising deeper patterns in his behaviour, but always of this place and time. In the books second half, the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first