Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters

von Yusef Komunyakaa

242 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic. Let's go back far as we dareto go back to that land bridgemade of untrusting earth & ice,to a boorish faith in our rhythmof footsteps, the fleeting mantraof wordless dreams . . . So begins Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters, the collaborative work of an elder statesman of American poetry and a young emerging poet. In early 2020, Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung began a conversation in verse that carried them through the COVID pandemic. The result is a work that is at once a document of the poets' inner and outer worlds and also a single and singular vision of what it is to live now and to look back on the epic scale of human history and artistic expression that stretches over millennia.

• Reihe: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• ISBN: 9780374617646
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2026
• Größe: 210 x 137 mm
• Verlag: St. Martins Press