NEW! 2025
from Johns Hopkins University Press
Read a poem: “On the Problem of Bears”
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For readers still enamored of the craft as well as the art of poetry, there is no better exemplar of either from my own generation as Charles Martin — B.H. Fairchild
Deft, witty, intelligent, and richly colloquial, this is a poetry of technical mastery and an easy freedom founded on well-earned assurance — Anthony Hecht
Charles Martin’s poetry is the best of company, witty, wise, and engaging — Mark Jarman
Like an expert cellist in full control of phrasing and intonation, Charles Martin can make a line of metrical verse sonorous of playful, tenebrous, or scintillating, elegiac or mercurial — David Yezzi
Charles Martin is a poet, translator of poetry, and essayist. The Khayyam Suite is the fifth of his eight books of poetry to appear in the Fiction and Poetry Series of the Johns Hopkins University Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Literary Matters, The Hopkins Review and, in numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Ingram Merrill Grant, a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry magazine, and a Pushcart Prize. His translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses won the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets, and he has also translated The Poems of Catullus and the Medea of Euripides.