Poetry. Book I in The Argument of Time series. Rome's harbor town, Ostia Antica, the other well-preserved ancient city in Italy, has long paled beside Pompeii, whose high drama and fiery demise fixed its place in literature and the popular imagination. Not so for the port city on the Tiber, and Teresa Carson's new Ostian poem comes to us in sixteen cantos, in English and Italian, as welcome as it is rare. She takes us with her, on a revelatory...
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