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The Bloodstained Rise.(Book Review)
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten, by Christopher Logue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 64 pp., $18)
Christopher Logue has been a dealer in stolen property (briefly), a prisoner in a Crusader castle (16 months), a pornographer (the book Lust), and, probably no less discreditably, an actor, a poet, and a writer of screenplays. As if this weren't enough, for over four decades this versatile Englishman has been engaged in a "reworking" of the Iliad. It is not, he is at pains to stress, a translation (he knows no Greek), but an episodic "account" of the ancient epic that has already taken far longer to produce than Troy took to ...
- All Day Permanent Red.(Brief Reviews)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Chicago Review Tipton, John June 22, 2004 700+ words
Christopher Logue. All Day Permanent Red. New York: FSG, 2003. 64pp...of Christopher Logue's All Day Permanent Red. This is the latest installment...evocative presentation. 'All day permanent red' recalls the cow-eyed goddesses...
- Christopher Logue. All Day Permanent Red: the First Battle Scenes of Homer's...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Leddy, Michael September 1, 2004 700+ words
Christopher Logue. All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten...reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon ("Pax"). In All Day Permanent Red, Logue picks up with Iliad 4 and 5, when the war...
- Fat.(Poets of World War II)(All Day Permanent Red)(Poets against the War )(Book...
- Magazine article from: Poetry Di Piero, W.S. October 1, 2003 700+ words
Poets of World War II, ed. by Harvey Shapiro. Library of America. $20.00. All Day Permanent Red, by Christopher Logue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $18.00. Poets Against the War, ed. by Sam Hamill. Thunder's Mouth...
- ASSEMBLYWOMAN JAFFEE'S BILL MAKES 'THURGOOD MARSHALL DAY' PERMANENT
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 2, 2009 700+ words
ALBANY, N.Y., May 13 -- Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, D-Suffern (95th District), issued the following news release: Today, the New York State Assembly unanimously passed legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) designating May 17th "Thurgood Marshall Day" in New York State. The
- Men at war; Homer's Iliad has never been more relevant.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 24, 2003 700+ words
...excerpts, the latest being "All Day Permanent Red." Covering the events that...unholy rages and demands. "All Day Permanent Red" isn't for traditionalists...writer in Sudbury, Ontario. All Day Permanent Red:The First Battle Scenes of...
- My secret classical vice; The Whitbread Award winner explains why he spends his...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 2, 2004 700+ words
...looking for. There are great translations of great literature (recent favourites of mine are War Music and All Day Permanent Red, Christopher Logue's reworking of sections of Homer's Iliad). A translation, though, is always different...
- Those Greeks had a word for it; poets, authors describe warriors as beasts or...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Weeks, Jerome April 30, 2003 700+ words
...Music'' itself, also his title for his version of ``The Iliad's'' Books 16-19, came out in 1981. ``All Day Permanent Red'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18) is his latest, brief installment, drawn from the clashes in Books...
- Those Greeks had a word for it; poets, authors describe warriors as beasts or...
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) April 24, 2003 700+ words
...Music'' itself, also his title for his version of ``The Iliad's'' Books 16-19, came out in 1981. ``All Day Permanent Red'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18) is his latest, brief installment, drawn from the clashes in Books...
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