New Songs for Orpheus
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New Songs for Orpheus

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New Songs for Orpheus

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For a change Orpheus / listens to the other / musicians once the hum / of his lyre no longer / hangs like moss from branches / in the forest air

In New Songs for OrpheusJohn Reibetanz updates Ovid's poetry. Ovid's words showed him to be a person of deep empathy for natural, animal, and human worlds, and so Reibetanz posits that the Roman writer would likely be eager to take account of all that we have learned about them in the past two thousand years.

Ovid would be familiar with recent discoveries about the complex inner lives and societies of non-human animals, and about the intricate interrelationships sustained in forests. The poems in New Songs for Orpheus look at and listen to the real creatures into which Ovid's characters were transformed, acts viewed not as punishment or deprivation, but as a release into other intriguing forms of life. In the human realm, he might find a suitably cataclysmic counterpart to the Trojan War in the barbarities and sacrifices of World War II, or perhaps see an analogue to the Fall of Troy in the fall of the Two Towers in September 2001.

The songs Orpheus sings then transform into more contemporary shapes, as characters and incidents from the Canadian musical Come from Away – like those in Ovid's "restored" world after the flood – are celebrated in a reaffirmation of community after the divisive horrors of 9/11. In all these times and places, metamorphosis brings new meaning into a life, be it human, plant, or animal.

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Information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2023
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780228017417
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. I The Music
  5. THEIR SONG
  6. THE DRUM
  7. MINSTRELS
  8. ORPHIC VOICE
  9. II Wings of Song
  10. SHH
  11. NOT PHILOMEL
  12. ROUNDS
  13. KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE
  14. BLACK AND WHITE
  15. AND A PARTRIDGE
  16. HOW WOODPECKER REKINDLED THE SUN
  17. PEREGRINE
  18. SONG AND DANCE
  19. HERALD
  20. BESS BEETLE WOODNOTES
  21. SILK ROADS
  22. III Earthbound Song
  23. SIXTEEN HANDS
  24. MONKEY SEE
  25. PIGGYBACKING
  26. WOLFSBANE
  27. UPON THY BELLY
  28. THE EYES HAVE IT
  29. LIONHEARTED
  30. TO THE DOGS
  31. IV Roots of Song
  32. THE SACRED GROVE
  33. OAKED
  34. WHITE LIES
  35. A LESSON FOR THE GODS
  36. NOT WEEPING BUT LOOKING
  37. NEVERLANDISH TREE
  38. FASTNESS
  39. GREEN MAGIC
  40. UNDERGROWTH OVERACHIEVER
  41. THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS
  42. BRIDGE
  43. V Breath Marks
  44. THE FLOW
  45. STAGES OF HIS AGE
  46. SO LET US MELT
  47. FRANKINCENSE
  48. TRANSPOSED
  49. STONES AND BONES
  50. VI Love Songs
  51. SONG ON PAPER
  52. SIGHT LINES
  53. TOUCH
  54. SONG ON PAPER II
  55. AIRBORNE
  56. KEEPERS
  57. IN AND OUT OF TIME
  58. EURYDICE TRACKING ORPHEUS
  59. TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS
  60. VII The Chorus
  61. AN OH
  62. OUR LOVE IS HERE
  63. THIS TREE
  64. CONNECTED
  65. GIFTS FROM THE SWIFT
  66. TRANSFORMERS
  67. CHALK
  68. NEW SONGS
  69. NOTES
  70. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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