Anamorphoseon: A Philosopher's Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book One

by Dwight Brooks

354 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2025

About the author

I was raised in Southern California, and devoted myself to rock climbing and ski racing. I completed a double-major in philosophy and English at USC in 1978; an M.F. A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1981. In 1983 I withdrew from the Ph.D. program at Yale, unable to resist a job offer to become an expedition research director for a documentary film company in Indonesia, charged to locate primitive tribal groups in mountain areas difficult of access. This immersion led to learning Dutch, to an interest in the colonial period, and to many research trips to The Netherlands. I remained in Indonesia just under ten years, working privately the last five composing polylingual jungle fiction inspired by James Joyce. I completed an M.A. in English from UC Santa Barbara, in 1996; M.A. in comparative literature from UC Irvine in 1998, and Ph.D. in comparative lit. from Irvine in 2001. My dissertation was entitled: "Spenser's Ingenium: a Study of Figural Metamorphism in the 1593 Faerie Queene." I never sought an academic appointment, and that has been a tough row to hoe, But since then, enabled by a small inheritance I have been enabled to write full-time for 17 years. 13 of these were given to "Salvage Optic." I am currently completing a new Southeast Asian adventure, this one set in Singapore in the 1820s. I live on the Big Island of Hawaii.