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Chris Childers | Translating the Ancient Forest: The Penguin Book of Greek & Latin Verse

The old saw attributed to Robert Frost holds that "poetry is what is lost in translation." Among those things most often lost are the connections between poets and their predecessors, the way each new generation answers, adapts or antagonizes the ones that went before. In single-poet editions, such conversations are either omitted or confined to footnotes which rarely manage to capture the imagination of the general reader. By contrast, in The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, the extended symposium of the genus irritabile vatum (irritable race of bards) is held in full view over the course of its thousand pages, as poets call on and call out each other in meters and stanzas as pregnant with meaning as their words. Clifford Geertz might have called it an act of "thick description;" A.E. Stallings, writing in The Telegraph, calls it "inspired and enlightening lunacy." In this talk, Christopher Childers, the author and translator, will introduce the book in conversation with Jason Pedicone, read generously from it, and answer questions from the audience. _ Chris Childers studied Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and poetry at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches Latin, coaches squash and tennis and watches over his pet fish and budgies.You can learn more about Chris Childers and his work by visiting his website: https://www.christopherchilderspoet.com/ _ https://www.paideiainstitute.org/