Talking Dirty to the Gods
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A daredevil poetic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award . . . A god isn't worthA drop... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374272557
ISBN13:9780374272555
Release Date:September 2000
Publisher:Scribner Book Company
Length:134 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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The Poet Walks Through all of Western Civilization
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Where Baraka, as a nationalist poet, looked for new forms from Africa to escape the prejudiced West, Yusef K appropriates all of Western culture with aplomb, dealing with the slave societies of the Greek and Romans and their Gods as well as walking through the middle ages and talking about current times. His knowledge of ancient history is impressive. The poems work on many levels, like the poem "Racoons," which is about hunting these animals with dogs but also about, horribly, using the same techniques to hunt down runaway slaves in the slave south. No book I know deals so powerfully with the long history of large scale slavery in Western history.
I should have bought this book...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I picked it up at the book store and was flipping through it. Wow! Seemed to be a little more accessible than some of Komunyakaa's other work, but just as powerful if not more so.
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