Talking Dirty to the Gods
Title | Talking Dirty to the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374272557 |
A collection of poems in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines and evaluates each of the seven deadly sins.
Speaking the Unspeakable
Title | Speaking the Unspeakable PDF eBook |
Author | Coranna Beene |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Warhorses
Title | Warhorses PDF eBook |
Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374531919 |
Warhorses is the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers. 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 breathless, an exhausted but desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines "the old masters of Shock & Awe" daydreaming of "lovely Penelope / like a trophy."
Flashback Through the Heart
Title | Flashback Through the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Angela M. Salas |
Publisher | Susquehanna University Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781575910826 |
In doing so, the author seeks to convince readers that Komunyakaa has never been solely interested in dealing with the complexities of race in his work, although he does so to stunning effect in such works as Dien Cai Dau, a volume invoking the horrors of the war in Vietnam."--Jacket.
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
Title | Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-06-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374604851 |
"A selection of new and previously published poems from the celebrated poet"--
Pleasure Dome
Title | Pleasure Dome PDF eBook |
Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2004-09-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0819567396 |
Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.
The Giant Book of Poetry
Title | The Giant Book of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | William Roetzheim |
Publisher | Level4Press Inc |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780976800125 |
Winner or finalist in the 'Best Books' National Book Award Poetry Anthology of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year; Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year; and the Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction. Over 750 pages of poetry spanning from 4,000 BC up to the present day and including a broad cross-section of global poetry. Footnotes for each poem specify each poem's form, define unusual or archaic words, and include notes about interpretation. Multiple indexes, including an index by subject, simplify finding exactly the right poem for any situation. The poems were specifically selected to appeal to readers new to poetry, but even experienced poetry readers will find new and enjoyable poems. The poems from the book are also available on audio CD.