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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 whipsmart take on books seven and eight, that it won the Whitbread prize for poetry in 2006., WAR MUSIC collects the sum so far of this work in progress, previously published in three volumes: "War Music," "Kings," and "The Husbands."
| Size | | Length: | 216 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.5 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Mr. Logue's miniature epic is a remarkable achievement and one that justifies its title. the war it portrays is real, and harsh, and horrible; but the music is real, too.
New York Times Book Review - John Gross
"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."
(05/13/2003)
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