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Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems

Contributors:

Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)

Laren McClung (Author)

Contributors: Yusef Komunyakaa (Author) ; Laren McClung (Author)

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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-10: 0374617643
ISBN-13: 9780374617646
Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef, McClung, Laren
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ISBN-13: 9780374617646

ISBN-10: 0374617643

Publish Date: February 17, 2026

On Sale Date: February 17, 2026

Language: English

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 8.25 × 5.38 × 1.0 in

Weight: 0.5 lbs

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