Charles Martin
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Charles Martin, is a poet, critic and translator, was born in New York City in 1942 and grew up in the Bronx. He graduated from Fordham University and received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He now teaches at the City University of New York and Syracuse University.
Martin's specialty is Latin poetry. He is the author of two translations: The Poems of Catullus (Johns Hopkins University Press 1990) and Ovid's Metamorphoses (W.W. Norton 2004). Martin has also published a scholarly book on Catullus called Catullus: A Critical Study (Yale University Press 1992). Martin's Ovid translation won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Martin is also a New Formalist, and was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry. His books of original poetry include: Steal the Bacon (Johns Hopkins University Press 1987); What the Darkness Proposes (Johns Hopkins University Press 1996) and Starting from Sleep: New & Selected Poems (Overlook Press/Sewanee Writers Series 2002). He received the Poetry Foundation's Beth Hokin Prize in 1970. His poem, "Against a Certain Kind of Ardency," was in the 2001 Pushcart Prize collection, and in 2005 he won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award for Literature.
[edit] External links
- Charles Martin's website.
- Martin's faculty webpage, Queensborough Community College. Retrieved December 28, 2006.
- Sturgeon, Shawn (2003). "Starting Point" (description of Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems), website of Sewanee Writers Conference. Retrieved December 28, 2006.
- Biography and links to poems, website of the Academy of American Poets. Retrieved December 28, 2006.
