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Highlights
- Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: "Kill!
- About the Author: Christopher Logue is a screenwriter, a film actor, and the author of several books of poems.
- 64 Pages
- Poetry, European
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About the Book
Originally published in 2003 by Faber and Faber Ltd., London.Book Synopsis
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:
Better to die than live without killing!" Who says prayer does no good? Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, "slam-scattering the herd" at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a "sky-wide Venetian blind." Here is an arrow's tunnel, "the width of a lipstick," through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.
Review Quotes
"No classical scholar, no critic, has voiced more concisely the lasting impact of Homer." --George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Christopher Logue is a screenwriter, a film actor, and the author of several books of poems. He lives in London, England.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.26 Inches (H) x 5.56 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)
Weight: .2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: European
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 64
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher Logue
Language: English
Street Date: June 23, 2004
TCIN: 90812469
UPC: 9780374529291
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-8936
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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