War Music by Christopher Lugue is the book that has influenced me the most and the one I return to again and again. It may not be to everyone’s taste — Lattimore fans especially— and there are bound to be those you cry out, “Oh, no please, not that,” but reading Logue is one of the ways I contact the muse. I read him and I want to rush to the desk and write.
When I first read the review of “Kings” in the New York Review and heard that it was Homer in a modern idiom, I thought, “Please, no,” but then I came to the passage where Athena turns Achilles head around like a doll’s. I put down the paper and went to the store to order the book (of course it was not in stock).
Logue did go off the rails later with Cold Calls, but the sections gathered in the second volume titled War Music: Iliad books 1-4 and 16-19 are just so good.
Last edited by Rob Wright; 10-30-2012 at 02:07 PM.
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