{"product_id":"warhorses-paperback","title":"Warhorses - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e's books of poems include \u003ci\u003eTaboo \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2004) and \u003ci\u003eNeon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726288679219,"sku":"9780374531911","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WG9xR2ZocGRGZXhoV0Z2RmgyVFdDdz09.webp?v=1763733574","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/warhorses-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}