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War Music - by Christopher Logue (Paperback)
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- A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
- About the Author: Christopher Logue (1926-2011), poet, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
- 352 Pages
- Poetry, European
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About the Book
"While illness prevented Logue from finishing his version of the Iliad, enough survived in notebooks and letters to allow his friend the poet Christopher Reid to compile a version of the unpublished final installation, Big men falling a long way. This has been added to the previous parts of the poem, published individually between 1981 and 2005"--Page [4] of cover.Book Synopsis
A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention
Picture the east Aegean sea by night,
And on a beach aslant its shimmering
Upwards of 50,000 men
Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
Review Quotes
"This is not Homer: it's Logue's Homer. Like all translations, it departs fundamentally from the language of the original. Unlike many translations, it arrives at a version that, because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly 'faithful' translations have ever managed . . . " --Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine
"I still grasp Zeus by the knees and ask that he bless the translators. And Christopher Logue, among them, bless him highly . . . [Homer's Iliad] was strange from the beginning, wonderfully, heroically strange. And Logue, in turn, is wonderfully, Homerically strange . . ." --Jeffrey Brown, New York Times Book ReviewAbout the Author
Christopher Logue (1926-2011), poet, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. He moved to Paris in 1951, where he published his first books, Wand and Quadrant; Seven Sonnets; and Devil, Maggot and Son. Logue won the Paris Review / Bernard F. O'Connor Award and was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his contributions to literature.Additional product information and recommendations
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