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Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems

By (author) Yusef Komunyakaa, By (author) Laren McClung

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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.

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Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Published date | 17 Feb 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 210 x 137 x 17mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 242g
ISBN | 978-0-3746-1764-6
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BISAC | poetry / general

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