{"product_id":"warhorses-9780374531911","title":"Warhorses","description":"\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\u003e\"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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844400189714,"sku":"9780374531911","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2aae74d-7408-436e-88f5-ab5555aef2a9.jpg?v=1737318879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/warhorses-9780374531911","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}