Overview
A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention
Picture the east Aegean sea by night,
And on a beach aslant its shimmering
Upwards of 50,000 men
Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
āYour life at every instant up forā / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,ā writes Christopher Logue in his original version of Homerās Iliad, the uncanny ātranslation of translationsā that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as āthe best translation of Homer since Popeāsā (The New York Review of Books).
Logueās account of Homerās Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homerās tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and āpossessed of a very terrible beautyā (Slate). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes War Music, Kings, The Husbands, All Day Permanent Red, and Cold Calls, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result, War Music, comes as near as possible to representing the poetās complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that āLogueās Homer is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth centuryā (The Times Literary Supplement).
This book title, War Music (An Account of Homer's Iliad) - 9780374536817, ISBN: 9780374536817, by Christopher Logue, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 10, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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