Authors:S H COLEMAN MEML LBRY, Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komun
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: anthology, poetry, jazz, vol, second
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0253210682
ISBN-13: 9780253210685

With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omitted from The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane di Prima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, Eugene B. Redmond, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Ntozake Shange, A. B. Spellman, and Jay Wright. The Second Set fills out the history of jazz poetry with poems written before World War II, as well as those from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: wesleyan, poetry, poems, collected, dome, new, pleasure
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2004-09-20
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0819567396
ISBN-13: 9780819567390

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America’s most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa’s work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, warhorses
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374531919
ISBN-13: 9780374531911

This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. “Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?” he asks, and the question is hardly moot: “Sometimes I hold you like Achilles’ / shield,” and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo or Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like “Autobiography of My Alter Ego” he sounds almost breathl

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, gods, dirty, talking
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2001-09-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374527938
ISBN-13: 9780374527938

A daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award . . . A god isn’t worthA drop of water in the hell of his goodImagination, if we can’t curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake himIn his storehouse of belladonna,Tiger hornets, & snakebites. --from "Meditations in a Swine Yard"No turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities in Talking Dirty to the Gods. From "Hearsay" to "Heresy," these 132 poems, each consisting of four quatrains, are framed by innuendo and lively

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: wesleyan, poetry, poems, selected, vernacular, new, neon
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1993-03-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0819512117
ISBN-13: 9780819512116

In addition to 12 moving new poems, Neon Vernacular (winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) samples broadly from Yusef Komunyakaa’s acclaimed collections Dien Cai Dau, Copacetic, and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. Poems from Komunyakaa’s earlier books show that while his style has evolved from a soul-bare blues to an intellectually syncopated jazz, his core obsessions remain. His poems provide gritty testimony of the Vietnam War, a history of community and loneliness in African America, and, elusively, a complex document of human consciousness. Like his predecessor in

Author: Yusef. Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, dau, cai, dien
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1988-09-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819511641
ISBN-13: 9780819511645

Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, city, magic
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 1992-09-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819512087
ISBN-13: 9780819512086

An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.