{"product_id":"warhorses-yusef-komunyakaa-9780374531911","title":"Warhorses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarhorses \u003c\/i\u003eis the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep \/ again? he asks, and the question is hardly moot: Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' \/ shield, and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in \u003ci\u003eTaboo \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003eTalking Dirty to the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, and in long poems like Autobiography of My Alter Ego he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted but desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines the old masters of Shock \u0026amp; Awe daydreaming of lovely Penelope \/ like a trophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374531919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374531911\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 10\/13\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.16w x 0.30d","brand":"Yusef Komunyakaa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946557014271,"sku":"9780374531911","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c6b45cea-aa5c-414d-873b-1ffbbf55e631.jpg?v=1681513827","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/warhorses-yusef-komunyakaa-9780374531911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}