The Catholic Tradition Podcast: 175 – St. Aldhelm’s Riddles, Poetry & Public Service

Mar 11, 2024

At this time’s visitor is a person with two names and two careers. For
many years he has been a distinguished poet and translator underneath the
identify of A.M. Juster. That is an acronym for his Christian identify,
Michael J. Astrue, who for a few years was a lawyer, biotech
govt, 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 filth on him – however
all they may discover was that he wrote poetry on the facet!

Juster has revealed a number of books of his unique poems, most
lately Marvel & 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
guide a couple of 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 unique 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/

Marvel & Wrath https://www.pauldrybooks.com/merchandise/wonder-and-wrath

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