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Charles Martin

Charles Martin was born in New York City in 1942. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The recipient of numerous awards, Martin has received the Bess Hokin Prize, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Three of his poetry collections—Steal the Bacon (1987), What the Darkness Proposes (1996), and Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems (2002)—have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses won the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Charles Martin

Awards

Winner — Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, 2004

Books by Charles Martin

Metamorphoses: A New Translation
Ovid, Charles Martin, Bernard M. W. Knox
Paperback, 2005
"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Metamorphoses
Ovid, Charles Martin, Bernard M. W. Knox
First Edition, Hardback, 2003
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...
Metamorphoses: A Norton Critical Edition
Ovid, Charles Martin, Charles Martin
First Edition, Paperback, 2010
In his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovid’s text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original.
The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
Gavin Flood, Charles Martin
Paperback, 2013
The Bhagavad Gita, the Song of the Lord, is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue, presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great...
The Bhagavad Gita: A Norton Critical Edition
Gavin Flood, Gavin Flood, Charles Martin
First Edition, Paperback, 2014
“A true translation whose literary qualities make it stand out from the rest.” –Daniel Gold, Cornell University
Metamorphoses
Ovid, Charles Martin, Emily Wilson
Paperback, 2021
About Charles Martin’s translation.
Metamorphoses: A New Translation
Ovid, Charles Martin, Bernard M. W. Knox
E Book, 2005
"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post
The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
Gavin Flood, Charles Martin
E Book, 2014
The Bhagavad Gita, the Song of the Lord, is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue, presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great...
Metamorphoses
Ovid, Charles Martin, Emily Wilson
E Book, 2021
About Charles Martin’s translation
The Bhagavad Gita: A Norton Critical Edition
Gavin Flood, Gavin Flood, Charles Martin
First Edition, E Book, 2021
“A true translation whose literary qualities make it stand out from the rest.” –Daniel Gold, Cornell University