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Warhorses (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa

Warhorses (Paperback)

Yusef Komunyakaa

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This powerful 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 "or "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.

General

Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2009
First published: October 2009
Authors: Yusef Komunyakaa
Dimensions: 201 x 131 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53191-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 0-374-53191-9
Barcode: 9780374531911

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