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A daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
. . . A god isn't worth A drop of water in the hell of his good
Imagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake him In his storehouse of belladonna,
Tiger hornets, & snakebites.
—from "Meditations in a Swine Yard"
No turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities in Talking Dirty to the Gods. From "Hearsay" to "Heresy," these 132 poems, each consisting of four quatrains, are framed by innuendo and lively satire. Komunyakaa looks to nature and configures his own paradigm, in which an event as commonplace as the jewel wasp laying an egg in a cockroach becomes every bit as grand as Zeus's infidelity. The formally rigorous collection is itself a design for a systematic cosmos, a world compressed but abundant in surprise and delight.
Komunyakaa s mournful surrealism seems to have found a perfect mathematical embodiment in [Talking Dirty to the Gods] . . . His improvisations move effortlessly.
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Fernando Castillo
reviewed Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems on February 28, 2015
Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems
4 stars is the appropriate rating for this book which is made up entirely of poems w/ four stanzas and each stanza a quatrain. At first, it seems as though the author was very limited by the constraints of this type of poem, but it starts to feel as though he is showing off. Every poem is good even though they are restricted by form. The entirety is somewhat incredible to behold, but none of the individual poems really stand out. Every one of them is excellent, but no one poem rises above the others as truly inspiring, unique, or breath-taking. I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves poems that grasp language in beautiful and creative ways.
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