Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems -- Yusef Komunyakaa, Paperback
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Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems -- Yusef Komunyakaa, Paperback
$22.00
A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic. Let's go back far as we dare
to go back to that land bridge made of untrusting earth & ice, to a boorish faith in our rhythm of footsteps, the fleeting mantra of 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.Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2/17/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.5 lbs
Size: 8.2" H x 5.3" L x 0.8" W
ISBN: 9780374617646