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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Lasdun, James

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(1958-    ) UK poet, writer and anthologist, resident in the USA. The Silver Age (coll 1985) and Three Evenings and Other Stories (coll 1992) both contain lucid, somewhat surreal explorations into the fantastic. After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (trans anth 1994) with Michael Hofmann is a useful assemblage of Twice-Told adaptations of Ovid in verse form. Lasdun himself translates the tale of Erisychthon – who destroys a sacred grove (see Golden Bough) and is punished by a hunger so unappeasable that he eventually eats himself – into the twentieth century, where a New England property developer suffers the same fate. [JC]

James Lasdun

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