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The Cosmic Purr is the first collection of original poetry from Aaron Poochigian, well-known for his translations of Sappho, Aeschylus, Aratus and Apollonius of Rhodes. From the mythical to everyday themes, from the landscape of North Dakota to scenes in a bar, at a marriage ceremony, before birth or before death, Poochigian's verse is enlightened by uncommonly fresh wisdom, and deployed in the delightfully masterful, elegant and naturally-flowing metrical forms his translations are known for. PRAISE FOR THE COSMIC PURR: Aaron Poochigian 's technique is masterly, the tone tends to be tart, disillusioned, cryptic, and elegant, and it 's easy to be beguiled by these poems wit and bravura. But the pyrotechnics are used to serious ends, and the scenes that are fitfully illuminated, whether they occur in landscapes as quotidian as contemporary North Dakota or as otherworldly as mythical Greece, whether they are chilling or exhilarating, are always immediate in their reality, and they speak to the reader with a compelling cogency. - Dick Davis Aaron Poochigian is both a classicist and a neo-classical poet. By this I mean that he prefers as subjects the common occasions of our lives and a

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Author

Aaron Poochigian; Charles Martin

Publisher

San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780987870520

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14