The Iliad Book XXII: The Death of Hector - Tapa blanda

Following in the footsteps of Pound's Homer and Zukofsky's Catullus, Lisa Jarnot reconfigures a pivotal moment in Homer's epic tale of warfare into a new version of a classic text. Jarnot's vision of The Death of Hector is a poignant read for our present culture of boundless warfare.

Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967. She attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Since the mid-1990s she has lived in New York City. She has edited two small magazines (No Trees, 1987-1990, and Troubled Surfer, 1991-1992) as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New (American) Poetry. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission, Ring of Fire, and Black Dog Songs. Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming, and she recently completed a novel called Promise X. She teaches at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and at Brooklyn College, and has given lectures and readings throughout the United States and Europe.