Warhorses
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2008 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
21,500 words, Guess
Page Count
86 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewarhorsespoems0000komu
- ISBN-100374286434
- ISBN-139780374286439
- LibraryThing7478740
- Goodreads3381005
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- Library of Congress Control Number2007051760
- OCLC Control Number185021568
- Better World Books9780374286439
- Open LibraryOL16745265M
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3561.O455 W37 2008
- LCCPS3561.O455W37 2008
Description
"This new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo and Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted but desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines "the old masters of Shock & Awe" daydreaming of "lovely Penelope / like a trophy." Warhorses is the stunning work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers."--Jacket.
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