{"product_id":"war-music","title":"War Music","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003ci\u003eAll Day Permanent Red\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCold Calls\u003c\/i\u003e, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid.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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Logue, Christopher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":52723162120408,"sku":"9780374536817","price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9780374536817.jpg?v=1792519007","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/war-music","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}