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Yusef Komunyakaa Talking Dirty to the Gods (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Talking Dirty to the Gods : Poems
- Publication Name
- Talking Dirty to the Gods
- Title
- Talking Dirty to the Gods
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780374527938
- ISBN
- 9780374527938
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 08/04/2002
- Release Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- ZA
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 6.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Topic
- American / African American, General
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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A daredevil poetic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award . . . A god isn't worth A drop of water in the hell of his good Imagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake him In his storehouse of belladonna, Tiger hornets, & snakebites. --from "Meditations in a Swine Yard" No turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities in Talking Dirty to the Gods . From "Hearsay" to "Heresy," these 132 poems, each consisting of four quatrains, are framed by innuendo and lively satire. Komunyakaa looks to nature and configures his own paradigm, in which an event as commonplace as the jewel wasp laying an egg in a cockroach becomes every bit as grand as Zeus's infidelity. The formally rigorous collection is itself a design for a systematic cosmos, a world compressed but abundant in surprise and delight.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374527938
ISBN-13
9780374527938
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1821334
Product Key Features
Book Title
Talking Dirty to the Gods : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3566.L27
Reviews
"Komunyakaa's mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [ Talking Dirty to the Gods ]...Komunyakaa's lexical and historical range is large, and his improvisations move effortlessly." -- The New Yorker, Komunyakaa's mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [ Talking Dirty to the Gods ]...Komunyakaa's lexical and historical range is large, and his improvisations move effortlessly., "Komunyakaa's mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [Talking Dirty to the Gods]...Komunyakaa's lexical and historical range is large, and his improvisations move effortlessly." --The New Yorker
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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