Mar 11, 2024
Right now’s visitor is a person with two names and two careers. For
a long time he has been a distinguished poet and translator beneath the
title of A.M. Juster. That is an acronym for his Christian title,
Michael J. Astrue, who for a few years was a lawyer, biotech
government, and public servant, most notably serving as Commissioner
of the Social Safety Administration from 2007 to 2013. Throughout
this time, his political enemies tried to dig up dust on him – however
all they may discover was that he wrote poetry on the facet!
Juster has printed a number of books of his authentic poems, most
lately Surprise & Wrath in 2020. His work as a
translator contains volumes of Petrarch, Horace, Tibullus, and the
Latin verse riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop St. Aldhelm. Upcoming
tasks embrace one other quantity of Petrarch poems, a kids’s
e-book a few feminine juvenile manatee referred to as Girlatee, and
an anthology of poems in regards to the legendary phoenix, from Ovid to
Shakespeare.
On this episode Juster discusses his two careers, his curiosity
in translating early Latin Christian poetry, St. Aldhelm’s riddles,
and his personal authentic poetry.
Hyperlinks
A.M. Juster on Twitter https://twitter.com/amjuster
Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/saint-aldhelms-riddles-aldhelm-juster/
Surprise & Wrath https://www.pauldrybooks.com/merchandise/wonder-and-wrath
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