| #1181104 in Books | Komunyakaa Yusef | 2009-10-13 | 2009-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.23 x5.50l,.30 | File type: PDF | 96 pages | Warhorses||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| stone, metal, flesh|By Case Quarter|you can't stand these poems down eye to eye in a staring contest. before you finish reading the first poem you are doomed, and you will have flinched, totally captured. these poems are not about staring contests. men die in these poems. in these poems men die in wars. love for the man returning from the battlefield can be as hard as the|From Publishers Weekly|Komunyakaa (Taboo) achieved his genuine national eminence with poems about his service in the Vietnam War and about the African-American culture of the rural South; his recent work has turned his spare, bluesy inflections to subject
This 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. "Sweetheart, 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 Tab...
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