[Tony Barnstone]

Folks,

I am trying to track down verse translations of poems that feature monsters. I'm trying without success, for example, to find the Volsunga Saga (which has several excellent werewolf stories). A good verse translation of the Ramayana or of parts of the Mahabharata would be lovely. I do know our own Charles Martin has recently done the Bhaghavad-Gita, and I need to track that down for his vision of Krishna as the "destroyer of worlds."

If any of you have done such translations (metrical or free verse) or can point me in the right direction, I'd love to see the work. I'm putting together a monster poem anthology (from Gilgamesh on)--and it's pretty complete, but the prose translation thing is hanging me up with a number of texts.

Thanks!

Tony

p.s. Feel free to pm me if you like.