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| Sewanee Writers' Series Publishes Ninth Book
In Starting from Sleep, Martin has crafted and compiled a clever and poignant study of contemporary concerns written in traditional forms, and critics and poets have been quick to praise the book for its technical mastery, formal brilliance, and darkly comic sensibility. Pulitzer-Prize-winner Anthony Hecht calls the collection "deft, witty, intelligent, and richly colloquial," adding that Martin's work "is a poetry of technical mastery and easy freedom founded on well-earned assurance." The Threepenny Review says that "Charles Martin writes with a refreshing boldness and subtlety." And X.J. Kennedy calls Martin "a poet of masterly command [who] can captivate us with a sustained narrative, or dazzle us with a wicked epigram." Over the past three decades, Pulitzer-Prize nominee Charles Martin has written numerous works, all of which demonstrate his formal mastery, intelligence, and poetic range. His works include a translation, The Poems of Catullus; a critical study of the Latin poet, Catullus; and five books of original poems, including What the Darkness Proposes, Steal the Bacon, Passages from Friday, and Room for Error. Starting from Sleep includes selections from each previous selection of poetry, as well as nineteen new poems. Established in 1998, and made possible through the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund, the Sewanee Writers' Series is a joint venture between the University of the South and The Overlook Press. |
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The Sewanee Writers' Series is pleased to announce the publication of its ninth book: Charles Martin's Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems.