A Heaven Wrought of Iron offers a fresh approach to - and a collaboration with - the Odyssey by weaving together translated fragments from the Greek text with a sequence of poems drawn from an imaginative engagement with the Odyssey.

D.M. Spitzer’s collection unfolds within the framework of the ancient epic: 24 books and a well-known and complex narrative architecture. The poems contained in the book inhabit a range of voices drawn from both the world of Homer’s Odyssey and from that of the poet-as-reader.