{"product_id":"war-music-an-account-of-homers-iliad-9780374536817","title":"War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicture the east Aegean sea by night, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd on a beach aslant its shimmering \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUpwards of 50,000 men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, the uncanny \"translation of translations\" that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as \"the best translation of Homer since Pope's\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Logue's account of Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e 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\" (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes \u003ci\u003eWar Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Husbands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Day Permanent Red\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCold Calls\u003c\/i\u003e, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result, \u003ci\u003eWar Music\u003c\/i\u003e, comes as near as possible to representing the poet's complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that \"\u003ci\u003eLogue's Homer\u003c\/i\u003e is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Logue\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-2011), poet, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. He moved to Paris in 1951, where he published his first books, \u003ci\u003eWand and Quadrant\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Seven Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDevil, Maggot and Son\u003c\/i\u003e. Logue won the \u003ci\u003eParis Review \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Bernard F. O'Connor Award and was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his contributions to literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674806620434,"sku":"9780374536817","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9ce9035-78e3-4612-bc0d-c72393b29e4b.jpg?v=1733866016","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/war-music-an-account-of-homers-iliad-9780374536817","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}