Publisher's Synopsis
The Odes of Horace have been translated over the centuries by many of the greatest English language poets as well as Latin scholars. Jan Wojcik joins that company in WINGS OF WHITE PAGES: Odes 1, 2, and 3. Readers of Wojcik's translation in pre-publication manuscript have been stunned--there is no other word--by his absolutely original poetic approach married to a close reading of Horace's Latin. Wojcik brings new life to Horace for our century by a crisp, concise command of poetic diction and imagery combined with a wry and sometimes scathing wit. In a word, Wojcik "gets" Horace--and through Wojcik's brilliant translation, contemporary readers have the opportunity to access Horace in a new and exciting way.
