Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters

Name: Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters
Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
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Poems

By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung

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Paperback | 17 February 2026

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240 Pages

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20.8 x 13.5 x 2.54

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Available: 17th February 2026

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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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