A.M. Juster's books include: Longing for Laura (Birch Brook Press, 2001); The Secret Language of Women (University of Evansville Press, 2003); The Satires of Horace (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008); Tibullus' Elegies (Oxford University Press, 2012); Saint Aldhelm's Riddles (University of Toronto Press 2015); Sleaze & Slander: Selected Humorous Verse 1995-2015 (Measure Press 2016) ; The Billy Collins Experience (Aldrich Press 2016) and The Elegies of Maximianus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018); John Milton's The Book of Elegies (Paideia Institute Press 2019); Wonder and Wrath (Paul Dry Books, September 2020); Gerytades (Contubernalesbooks, December 2023).
Forthcoming will be his translation of Petrarch's Canzoniere w/W.W. Norton in 2024. He has won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award three times, the Richard Wilbur Award, the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and received other recognition, including two honorary degrees.
Now in its second printing
Wonder and Wrath is the latest book of original and translated poetry from A. M. Juster, one of America’s most respected poets and translators. These poems display great formal accomplishment and deliver pleasure in the act of reading them―especially aloud. Rooted in the tradition, the poems in Wonder and Wrath have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Rattle and many other top journals. Read this book of poems from start to finish; you’ll enjoy every one of them!
News:
A review of Gerytades in The New Criterion
Two Poems by A.M. Juster in Poetry Daily
A.M. Juster has signed a contract for his translation of Petrarch's Canzoniere and a second book-to-be named later @TNL_WWN of #WWNorton. (Petrarch w/W.W. Norton in 2023)
A Review of Wonder and Wrath by A. M. Juster in Plough. Sally Thomas: Opposites Refract
Athenaeum Review: On Poetry and Translation: A Conversation with A. M. Juster Podcast - Episode 33
Interview by Alfred Nicol Better Than Starbucks
A.M Juster on PBS New Hour When politics gets out of hand, turn to this poem
Deborah Warren's review of Maximianus: Elegies and Eros: The Golden Apples of the Sun
A.M. Juster's contrarian take on Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry: Fear and Loathing in the Postmodern English Department
A.M. Juster's translation "East African Proverbs" in the July/August 2016 issue of Poetry July/August 2016
Micah Mattix's Review of Sleaze & Slander in The Washington Free Beacon: The Modern Martial
John Wilson's Review of Saint Aldhelm's Riddles in The Baltimore Sun: Review: 'Saint Aldhelm's Riddles,' edited by A.M. Juster
