{"id":218,"date":"2017-10-09T04:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=218"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:40:06","slug":"poems-of-gaius-valerius-catullus-the","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/poems-of-gaius-valerius-catullus-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Translated by\u00a0Joseph Bienvenu<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>Illustrated by Thaddeus Conti<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>(Note: This title is in English only; see below for a free download of the original Latin text.)<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-1-935084-17-4<br \/>\n 180 pages: $16.00<br \/>\n December, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gaius Valerius Catullus<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the best known and loved poets of ancient Rome, but translations of his work have often suffered from being \u201ccleaned up\u201d by prudish translators. Joseph Bienvenu\u2019s new rendering brings the work into a contemporary English that captures Catullus\u2019s voice and doesn\u2019t shy away from the work\u2019s overt eroticism and raunchy humor. Thaddeus Conti\u2019s intimate illustrations further enhance the earthy tone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This polished little book captures all the varied registers of the voice of the ancient Roman poet Catullus. Bienvenu responds directly and freshly to every nuance in every genre represented in the original text, from epigram, to lyric, to elegy and epyllion. It comes as no surprise to me, though surely a delight to savor, that it has taken a New Orleans poet to truly lock eyebrows with the most passionate and genuine Latin poet of antiquity.<br \/>\n \u2014<strong>Stanley Lombardo,<\/strong>\u00a0Professor of Classics, University of Kansas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He gets the filthy parts just right\u2026<br \/>\n \u2014<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/peter-thompson\">Peter Thompson<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0author of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/product\/angle-of-incidence-shades\/\"><em>Angle of Incidence \/ Shades<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A great poet of love\u2014erotic and serious, erotic and witty, erotic and wounded\u2014Catullus is also a great observer of the human condition: political, social, physical. He is as capable of taking on Caesar as he is of observing himself. These translations are alive and captivating, giving us a Catullus for our time and all time.\u00a0<br \/>\n \u2014<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/mark-statman\">Mark Statman<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0author of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/product\/map-of-the-winds-a\/\"><em>A Map of the Winds<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Joseph Bienvenu<\/strong>\u00a0is a poet and classicist with a B.A. in Classics from Loyola University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Books include\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazevox.org\/index.php\/Shop\/Poetry\/atom-parlor-by-joseph-bienvenu-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Atom Parlor<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2010, BlazeVox),\u00a0<strong><em>Cocktail Poems<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2011, Hobby Horse Press),\u00a0<strong><em>Catullus: Selected Translations<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2010,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Verna-Press\/134620206594790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verna Press<\/a>), and\u00a0<strong><em>Pool Hall Quartet<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2008,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Verna-Press\/134620206594790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verna Press<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thaddeus Conti<\/strong>\u00a0is an artist and poet, whose drawings and paintings have been featured in many New Orleans art galleries. His two collections of poetry and drawings are\u00a0<strong><em>aepoetics<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2008, Lavender Ink) and\u00a0<strong><em>b-sides that<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2012, Lavender Ink), and his other previous published works include\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gallatin-and-toulouse-press.com\/coloring-book-for-the-criminally-insane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Coloring Book for the Criminally Insane<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2013, Gallatin and Toulouse Press) and\u00a0<strong><em>Listen Loud Listen Long<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2011,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Verna-Press\/134620206594790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verna Press<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/catullus\/merrill.pdf\">Download the Merrill edition of the original Latin text here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans\u00a0<a href=\"authors\/231\">Jos<\/a>eph Bienvenu<br \/>\n Illustrated by Thaddeus Conti<br \/>\n 9781935084174<br \/>\n He gets the filthy parts just right\u2026 &#8212; Peter Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[17],"product_tag":[117,118,120,119],"class_list":{"0":"post-218","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-dialogos","7":"product_tag-catullus","8":"product_tag-joseph-bienvenu","9":"product_tag-latin","10":"product_tag-thaddeus-conti","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple","18":"berocket_lgv_grid","19":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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