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Sherod Santos
Sherod Santos
Books by Sherod Santos
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
Paperback, 2006
Winner of the Umhoefer Prize: "A magnificent achievement, better, more animated, buoyant, and richly articulated than any other version I know."—Anthony Hecht
The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2012
“Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written.”—New Criterion
The City of Women: A Sequence of Poems and Prose
Paperback, 1994
"Beautifully rendered.... Santos's greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates ‘words whose syllables we are...
The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems
Paperback, 2000
A National Book Award finalist for 1999.
The Perishing: Poems
Paperback, 2004
"[Santos] articulates some of the most moving truths we can know about our shared humanity."—Washington Post
Square Inch Hours: Poems
Paperback, 2019
“Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir.… As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be.” —David Baker
Square Inch Hours: Poems
E Book, 2017
“Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir.… As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be.” —David Baker