Komunyakaa, Yusef

Talking Dirty to the Gods

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ISBN 13:: 9780374527938
author:: Komunyakaa, Yusef
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Fsg Adult
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2001
Pages:: 134
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 x 0.8 cm
Genre:: American / African American Poetry
Condition:: New
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Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods is a daring poetic achievement that explores the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities. Through 132 poems, each consisting of four quatrains, Komunyakaa examines the boundaries between nature and culture, revealing a world both compressed and abundant in surprise. In this formally rigorous collection, Komunyakaa configures his own paradigm, finding grandeur in everyday events like the jewel wasp laying an egg in a cockroach. With lively satire and innuendo, he frames his poems to challenge our assumptions about the natural world and our place within it. This systematic cosmos is both compressed and expansive, offering a wealth of surprise and delight for readers who engage with its design.

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