{"product_id":"talking-dirty-to-the-gods-yusef-komunyakaa-9780374527938","title":"Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daredevil poetic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa's \u003ci\u003eTalking Dirty to the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e . . . A god isn't worth\u003cbr\u003eA drop of water in the hell of his good \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImagination, if we can't curse \u003cbr\u003eSunsets \u0026amp; threaten to forsake him\u003cbr\u003eIn his storehouse of belladonna, \u003cbr\u003eTiger hornets, \u0026amp; snakebites.\u003cbr\u003e --from Meditations in a Swine Yard \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities in \u003ci\u003eTalking Dirty to the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374527938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374527938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.76h x 5.30w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/14\/2001 pg. 32","brand":"Yusef Komunyakaa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993954648319,"sku":"9780374527938","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae729557-4eb1-43e0-a149-45444911f9bd.jpg?v=1683327264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/talking-dirty-to-the-gods-yusef-komunyakaa-9780374527938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}