"In this new translation of the Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Portions of this translation have already appeared in Arion, The Formalist, The Tennessee Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.Hailed in Newsweek for his translation of The Poems of Catullus - "Charles Martin is an American poet; he puts the poetry, the immediacy of the streets back into the English Catullus. The effect is electric"--Martin's translation of the Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English."--Jacket.Abstract: "In this new translation of the Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Portions of this translation have already appeared in Arion, The Formalist, The Tennessee Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.Hailed in Newsweek for his translation of The Poems of Catullus - "Charles Martin is an American poet; he puts the poetry, the immediacy of the streets back into the English Catullus. The effect is electric"--Martin's translation of the Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English."--Jacket