Talking Dirty to the Gods. Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2000 (1st. ed.)

Komunyakaa, Yusef
Talking Dirty to the Gods. Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2001
Größe: 8°
Seitenzahl: 134 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Anthologie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Buch
-"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." (Farrar Straus Giroux)

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