{"product_id":"warhorses","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\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"","brand":"Yusef Komunyakaa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793317134378,"sku":"9780374531911","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/warhorses-8656959.jpg?v=1762150883","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/warhorses","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}