Poetry
Donatello's Version
“James Scully’s fierce moral intelligence, poetic craft and grim humor are all alive and well in this long-awaited collection.”
—Adrienne Rich
Santiago Poems
“A rich, vivid, and eloquent chronicle of life...relevant well into the future.” -- The Minnesota Review
Apollo Helmet
“These poems offer a fresh image or perspective to startle and illuminate.”
--Publishers Weekly
Raging Beauty
Selected Poems
Unreviewed
Essays
Line Break: poetry as social practice
"a major radical artist-intellectual at the peak of his power...a lucid, intransigent work."
--Fred Pfeil, Village Voice
Translation
Prometheus Bound
"No one who troubles to read Scully and Herington out loud can doubt it is a milestone
in the translation of
Prometheus Bound." --Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English
