Can I read Night Battle: Poems (Penguin Poets) on EtoBox?

Night Battle: Poems (Penguin Poets) by William Logan is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Night Battle: Poems (Penguin Poets) about?

Breathtakingly intense poems about language, love, and the loss of purity in the world Logan's newest work, The Night Battle , reveals to readers a rich, sensuous world where even pigeons "roost in judgment" like "mottled, maculate angels" and Long Island mothers lounge at a swimming club drinking the politeness of servants "like a sin" while "summer broke the dark with lightning storms." A section of the book entitled "Milton's Tongue" finds an old college "gaudy with painted ghosts" and an ancient church filled with "antique lives we have no common language with, except that they too were lies." Donald Hall, writing in the Iowa Review , said, "Logan writes like an angel--an elegant, literary angel." Indeed, Logan's world is populated not only by angels, but also by the lost souls of great poets and humble country people alike--it is a rich, sensuous world aching to retain beauty in a landscape pocked by sin. Like Ovid on the Black Sea, the restless stranger might feel such cruel beauty monotonous. But, inshore, a crusty alligator steams, nosing into reeds to let off passengers or take on canvas sacks of mail, as if the weather had never once been tender or required, like love, a

Who reads Night Battle: Poems (Penguin Poets)?

Author

William Logan

Publisher

New York: Penguin Books

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140587982

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.06 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14