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Book Title
Talking Dirty to the Gods : Poems
Publication Name
Talking Dirty to the Gods
Title
Talking Dirty to the Gods
Author
Yusef Komunyakaa
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780374527938
ISBN
9780374527938
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre
Poetry
Release Date
08/04/2002
Release Year
2002
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
ZA
Item Height
0.4in
Item Length
8.4in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Publication Year
2001
Topic
American / African American, General
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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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 worth A drop of water in the hell of his good Imagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake him In his storehouse of belladonna, Tiger hornets, & snakebites. --from "Meditations in a Swine Yard" No turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities in Talking Dirty to the Gods . From "Hearsay" to "Heresy," these 132 poems, each consisting of four quatrains, are framed by innuendo and lively satire. Komunyakaa looks to nature and configures his own paradigm, in which an event as commonplace as the jewel wasp laying an egg in a cockroach becomes every bit as grand as Zeus's infidelity. The formally rigorous collection is itself a design for a systematic cosmos, a world compressed but abundant in surprise and delight.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374527938
ISBN-13
9780374527938
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Talking Dirty to the Gods : Poems
Author
Yusef Komunyakaa
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz

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Ps3566.L27
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"Komunyakaa's mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [ Talking Dirty to the Gods ]...Komunyakaa's lexical and historical range is large, and his improvisations move effortlessly." -- The New Yorker, Komunyakaa's mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [ Talking Dirty to the Gods ]...Komunyakaa's lexical and historical range is large, and his improvisations move effortlessly., "Komunyakaa's mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [Talking Dirty to the Gods]...Komunyakaa's lexical and historical range is large, and his improvisations move effortlessly." --The New Yorker
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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