Two
New Collections by Anthony Lombardy: Antique
Collecting and Severe
Antique
Collecting is Anthony Lombardy's first full-length collection in
nearly a decade. Lombardy's work displays a fluid, undestated formalism
that pays close attention to the particulars of daily life. Delving below
the surface of our lives, the music of his poems awakens an awareness
of the deeper rhythms of human experience.
ISBN 1932339051, 112 pages, $16.00
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Severe,
Lombardy's first collection, is being published by WordTech Editions in
a revised and expanded format as a companion volume to Antique Collecting. The new edition includes
an essay that undertakes a critical exploration of poetic rhythm and form
by Lombardy, and offers important insights into these complex topics.
ISBN 1932339426, 164 pages, $16.00
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Sample Poems by Anthony Lombardy
Anthony Lombardy’s poems and translations have appeared in journals
like The Classical Outlook, The Formalist,
The Hudson Review, National Review, and The New Yorker. His translation of Euripides’
Bacchae was published and produced
at Nashville’s Parthenon. Mr. Lombardy received the Ph.D. in Classics
from Vanderbilt University. He taught Classics and poetry writing at
Belmont University and now devotes himself to writing and editing.
Praise for Anthony Lombardy
"It's a mystery how so many lovely sounds translate so smoothly into vivid
scenes. Of course poets at their best have always worked that translation,
and in reading Anthony Lombardy's poems we are stunned anew." --Richard Wakefield
“Here is a master of meter and rhyme, unafraid to experiment…he
writes poetry with a romantic flourish, a postmodern sensibility, a classical
wit, and a sense of history that does not overwhelm…a hallmark of Lombardy’s
work is his never ending parade of simply astonishing metaphors and turns
of phrase…”--T.L. Ponick in The Edge City Review (on Severe)
“…Lombardy has displayed signs of possessing a rare talent: that
of being able to apply his classical learning to poems that render insight
to universal human emotions and contemporary dilemmas—all with compassion,
wisdom, and pleasure.”--Samuel Maio in Mockingbird (on Severe)