War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad

by Christopher Logue

Book Overview

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.

"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 Homer's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374286493
• ISBN13: 9780374286491
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.4"