Ebook: New Songs for Orpheus

Poems that update Ovid’s Metamorphoses and explore the transformations he would depict if he lived in the twenty-first century.

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