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Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0374272557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of poems in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines and evaluates each of the seven deadly sins.
Author: Angela M. Salas
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781575910826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2008-09-30
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves 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 and Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "The Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted, desperate prophet. Warhorses is the stunning work of a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.
Author: William Roetzheim
Publisher: Level4Press Inc
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 9780976800125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner 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.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0374604851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A selection of new and previously published poems from the celebrated poet"--
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2004-09-20
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0819567396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYusef 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.
Author: Emily A. Duncan
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1250195713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stunning sequel to instant New York Times bestseller, Wicked Saints Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Malachiasz is at war with who--and what--he’s become. As their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. Their paths are being orchestrated by someone...or something. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet—those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer. In their dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in their Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless. This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1988-09-01
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 0819573787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist
Author: Judith Tarr
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-07-15
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780812564662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a troubled housewife awakens one morning as a tavernkeeper in the Roman frontier town of Carnuntum around 170 A.D., she must face plague and war in order to survive and prosper in her new life.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1993-04-30
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0819574538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Pulitzer Prize–winning collection pairs twelve new poems with work from seven previous volumes by “one of the most extraordinary poets writing today” (Kenyon Review). The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa traverses psychological and physical landscapes, mining personal memory to understand the historical and social contexts that shape experience. Neon Vernacular charts the development of his characteristic themes and concerns by gathering work from seven of his previous collections, along with a dozen new poems that continue the autobiographical trajectory of his previous collection, Magic City. Here, Komunyakaa shares an intimate and evocative life journey, from his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana—once a center of Klan activity and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts—to his stormy relationship with his father, his high school football days, and his experience of the Vietnam War and his difficult return home. Many of the poems collected here are drawn from limited editions and are no longer available.
