{"product_id":"war-music-an-account-of-homers-iliad-christopher-logue","title":"War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad [Christopher Logue]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[Modernist] [Iliad] [GOAT'ed]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWar Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Logue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFSG, NY. 2016. First American edition hardback. Aside from a small tear to the front of the dust jacket, in pristine condition. Excellent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eYour 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the uncanny “translation of translations” that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as “the best translation of Homer since Pope’s” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLogue’s account of Homer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWar Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Husbands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll Day Permanent Red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCold Calls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWar Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, comes as near as possible to representing the poet’s complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLogue’s Homer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of my absolute favorite works of poetry in translation (and to that, a house favorite over at Amphetamine Sulphate, or so I hear). This version turns the Iliad into modernist war reportage, sheer brilliance end to end. What is a better title than \"All Day Permanent Red\"? Nothing. You are a FOOL if you skip this one. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alarum Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48946905645364,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/4895\/3652\/files\/PXL_20251109_205830717_2.jpg?v=1763219585","url":"https:\/\/alarumbooks.com\/products\/war-music-an-account-of-homers-iliad-christopher-logue","provider":"Alarum Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}