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Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems

Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems - Paperback

by Yusef Komunyakaa
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yusef KomunyakaaPublish date:2001-09-12Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374527938ISBN-10:374527938UPC:9780374527938Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.76 x 5.30 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCWDG98T8K

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374527938ISBN-10:374527938UPC:9780374527938Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.76 x 5.30 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCWDG98T8K
Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947. His books of poems include Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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