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Since 1959, World War II veteran Christopher Logue has been translating sections of THE ILIAD into muscular vernacular verse. Logue plays fast and loose with the classic, blending modern idiom and images with the ancient tale, and the effect is cinematic, radical, and wonderfully alive: "That unpremeditated joy as you / --the Uzi shuddering warm against your hip / Happy in danger in a dangerous place / Yourself another self you found at Troy-- / Squeeze nickel through that rush of Greekoid scum!" Logue has published slowly over the decades, not necessarily moving through Homer's epic in a chronological fashion. WAR MUSIC, his first publication, is an account of book 16 from THE ILIAD; KINGS is an account of books one and two; THE HUSBANDS takes on books three and four; ALL DAY PERMANENT RED (the title taken from a Revlon advertisement) focuses only on battle scenes; COLD CALLS, the penultimate volume in Logue's masterpiece, did such a whip-smart take on books seven and eight, that it won the Whitbread prize for poetry in 2006., This volume of poems represents not only noted English poet Logue's retelling of the first battles in Homer's ILIAD, but also the beginning of a larger, more ambitious project to translate the epic into modern English.
| Size | | Length: | 53 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 7.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[I]f ALL DAY PERMANENT RED is not Homer, quite, it is nevertheless epic and exciting and possessed of a very terrible beauty. In fact, it's some of the best poetry being written in English today, and it should be read widely and with great pleasure by anyone still interested in the art of verse."
Slate - Jim Lewis (05/13/2003)
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