Warhorses - by Yusef Komunyakaa (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Warhorses </i>is the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.</b></p><p>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. </p><p>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 <i>Taboo </i>or <i>Talking Dirty to the Gods</i>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[Komunyakaa] call[s] to mind Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman-- the private gaze and the civic drum, purifying language, purifying history." --<i>Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, The Washington Post Book World</i></p><p>"Verses that practically sizzle and spark with intelligence . . . Komunyakaa thinks like a scholar and writes like a jazz musician. His poems wail and swing to the backbeat of African-American history, dropping knowledge with a wink and a nod to let you know, yes, this man knows a thing or two about what he's talking about." --<i>John Freeman, The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></p><p>"Yusef Komunyakaa is . . . one of our period's most significant and individual voices . . . He has a near-revelatory capacity to give himself over to his subject matter and to the taut concision of his free verse . . . Dazzling." --<i>David Wojahn, Poetry</i></p><p>"[Warhorses ] is galvanizing in its fury and decisive in its rare power . . . Komunyakaa crafts metaphors and images of shocking precision and startling intensity." --<i>Donna Seaman, Booklist</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Yusef Komunyakaa</b>'s books of poems include <i>Taboo </i>(FSG, 2004) and <i>Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems</i>, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University.
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