War Music - by Christopher Logue (Paperback)
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<p><b>A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention</b><br><i></i><br><i>Picture the east Aegean sea by night, </i><br><i>And on a beach aslant its shimmering </i><br><i>Upwards of 50,000 men</i><br><i>Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. </i></p><p>"Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips," writes Christopher Logue in his original version of Homer's <i>Iliad</i>, the uncanny "translation of translations" that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>). </p><p> Logue's account of Homer's <i>Iliad</i> is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and "possessed of a very terrible beauty" (<i>Slate</i>). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the <i>Iliad</i> to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes <i>War Music</i>, <i>Kings</i>, <i>The Husbands</i>, <i>All Day Permanent Red</i>, and <i>Cold Calls</i>, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result, <i>War Music</i>, comes as near as possible to representing the poet's complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that "<i>Logue's Homer</i> is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century" (<i>The Times Literary Supplement</i>).</p>
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