{"product_id":"war-music-an-account-of-homers-iliad-9780374536817","title":"War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad","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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ci\u003eAll Day Permanent Red\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCold Calls\u003c\/i\u003e, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid.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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Logue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374536817","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439223345289,"sku":"9780374536817","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_dc1d8258-dfbf-4800-8780-52f27aae0d94.jpg?v=1716270303","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/war-music-an-account-of-homers-iliad-9780374536817","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}