Warhorses: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374286434 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo and Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "The Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted, desperate prophet. Warhorses is the stunning work of a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like
Ann B. Keller said Incredibly Moving. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa, does not disappoint. This riveting and emotional collection of poems dealing with the horror and destruction of war is incredibly moving. The images Mr. Komunyakaa describes plunge the reader into the midst of the conflict. Backpedaling in terror, I found myself wanting to set this book aside, but I could not. Like a soldier, I had to see the battle to its fateful conclusion.I especially liked the ending segment, Autobiography Of My Alter Ego. This section read very much like a soldier's diary, or. "stone, metal, flesh" according to Case Quarter. you can't stand these poems down eye to eye in a staring contest. before you finish reading the first poem you are doomed, and you will have flinched, totally captured. these poems are not about staring contests. men die in these poems. in these poems men die in wars. love for the man returning from the battlefield can be as hard as the instruments of war, the instruments of personal destruction, the blade of the sword, the exploding grenade, the unflinching stone meeting the body.the first section of Warhorses, Love in the Time of War, is a s. J. Baker said I liked the style of this work as it references ancient. I liked the style of this work as it references ancient myths and legends and relates them to modern social problems and global issues.
(Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Pulitzer-winner Komunyakaa opens with sonnets about conquests ancient and modern, fought on horseback or with bullets & grenades. The most ambitious, longest and least guarded poem comes last: Autobiography of my Alter Ego is a confessional poem spoken by a fictional Vietnam veteran: a bartender at the Chimera Club/ for twenty-some-odd years, this alter ego delivers, in syncopated two-part lines, a clutch of profound statemen