Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems - Paperback

$22.00

Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems - Paperback

Name: Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems - Paperback
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SKU: 9780374617646
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by Yusef Komunyakaa , Laren McClung

$22.00

Book Overview

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.

ISBN	9780374617646
Author	Yusef Komunyakaa , Laren McClung
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	February 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	240
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print