num_pages: 352
description: A remarkable hybrid of translation adaptation and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by nightAnd on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.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 Homers Iliad  the uncanny translation of translations that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as the best translation of Homer since Popes ( The New York Review of Books ).Logues account of Homers Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homers 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 ( Slate ). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes War Music  Kings  The Husbands  All Day Permanent Red  and Cold Calls  along with previously unpublished material in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result War Music  comes as near as possible to representing the poets complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that  Logues Homer is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century ( The Times Literary Supplement ).
language: English
title: War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux