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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374536813

ISBN-139780374536817

eBay Product ID (ePID)222090403

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Book TitleWar Music : an Account of Homer's Iliad

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicEpic, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry

AuthorChristopher Logue

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"This is not Homer: it's Logue's Homer. Like all translations, it departs fundamentally from the language of the original. Unlike many translations, it arrives at a version that, because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly 'faithful' translations have ever managed . . . He died before he could conclude much more than half of a full account of those ancient sounds. But, oh, what he managed to leave us: a vision of Homer as intimate and alive as a breath." --Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine "I still grasp Zeus by the knees and ask that he bless the translators. And Christopher Logue, among them, bless him highly . . . [Homer's Iliad ] was strange from the beginning, wonderfully, heroically strange. And Logue, in turn, is wonderfully, Homerically strange . . . In War Music , Christopher Logue has worked from what is still the greatest story of war ever told and created a vivid and fresh poem in a language he knew very well, indeed. My advice: 'Drop into it,' friends." --Jeffrey Brown, New York Times Book Review, "This is not Homer: it's Logue's Homer. Like all translations, it departs fundamentally from the language of the original. Unlike many translations, it arrives at a version that, because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly 'faithful' translations have ever managed . . . " --Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine "I still grasp Zeus by the knees and ask that he bless the translators. And Christopher Logue, among them, bless him highly . . . [Homer's Iliad ] was strange from the beginning, wonderfully, heroically strange. And Logue, in turn, is wonderfully, Homerically strange . . ." --Jeffrey Brown, New York Times Book Review

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal821/.914

SynopsisA 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. "Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips," writes Christopher Logue in his original version of Homer's Iliad , the uncanny "translation of translations" that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" ( The New York Review of Books ). Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and "possessed of a very terrible beauty" ( 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 poet's complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that " Logue's Homer is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century" ( The Times Literary Supplement ).