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J. D. McClatchy, Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Hazmat . The author of two volumes of literary essays and several opera libretti as well, he has edited numerous books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry . McClatchy has been Editor of The Yale Review since 1991.
McClatchy's fellow poets have succeeded where many a scholar has failed... The resulting collection is ... a wonderfully varied tribute to the mercurial poet it honors. --Amanda Kolson Hurley, Times Literary Supplement Many of the 35 poets here are well established--Charles Simic, Robert Bly, Anthony Hecht; others are known as distinguished translators; and the match with Horace tends to put them on top form... But even the most brilliant ideas can flop in execution. This one soars. It brings us as close to the real Horace as we can come. --Tom Payne, The Daily Telegraph This book will help initiate--and re-initiate--modern readers to some of the best lyric poetry ever produced... [T]he poems are rendered not by one hand, but by the best contemporary poets... J. D. McClatchy has doled out his assignments wisely to the finest poets writing in English in England, America, and Ireland, and they've done their work well. --Tracy Lee Simmons, The Weekly Standard
