{"product_id":"the-emperor-of-water-clocks-yusef-komunyakaa-9780374536572","title":"The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe wildly enchanting new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If I am not Ulysses, I am \/ his dear, ruthless half brother.\" So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of Water Clocks\u003c\/i\u003e. And Ulysses (or his half brother) is but one of the characters Komunyakaa conjures over the course of this densely lyrical book. Here his speaker observes a doomed court jester; here another recalls Napoleon as the emperor \"tells the doctor to cut out his heart \/ \u0026amp; send it to the empress, Marie-Louise\"; and here he is just a man, reflecting on why he'd \"rather die a poet \/ than a warrior.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these mutations and migrations and permutations and peregrinations, there are constants: Komunyakaa's jazz-inflected rhythms, his effortlessly surreal images, his celebration of natural beauty and of love. There is also his insistent inquiry into the structures and struggles of power: not only, say, of king against jester but of man against his own desire, and of the present against the pernicious influence of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother brilliant collection from the man David Wojahn has called one of our \"most significant and individual voices,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of Water Clocks \u003c\/i\u003edelights, challenges, and satisfies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374536570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374536572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Yusef Komunyakaa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46545637081343,"sku":"9780374536572","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f5b4997-1171-4993-b235-34379c98d7f2.jpg?v=1738182971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-emperor-of-water-clocks-yusef-komunyakaa-9780374536572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}