Against the terrible death

Abstract

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Against the Terrible Death is a collection of poems about the intersections of history, ancient and comtemporary, personal and public. The collection is prefaced by an introductory essay that explores the necessity of failure to the practice of translation and examines my own work on the translation of Catullus XI in relation to other versions of the poem.