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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Release : 1993-04-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Neon Vernacular by : Yusef Komunyakaa
Download or read book Neon Vernacular written by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1993-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Release : 1993-04-30
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 538/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Neon Vernacular by : Yusef Komunyakaa
Download or read book Neon Vernacular written by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1993-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Release : 1988-09-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dien Cai Dau by : Yusef Komunyakaa
Download or read book Dien Cai Dau written by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1988-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Ernest Suarez
Release : 1999
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 68X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Southbound by : Ernest Suarez
Download or read book Southbound written by Ernest Suarez. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's a real flowering, I think, of southern poetry right now, ... assembling at the edges of everything. "This observation by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright reflects upon the continuing vibrancy and importance of the southern poetic tradition. Although the death of James Dickey in 1997 left southern poetry without a recognizably dominant voice, an array of other vibrant voices continue to be heard and recognized. Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets provides a glimpse of the many poets who promise to keep southern poetry vital into the twenty-first century.
Author : Arnold Rampersad
Release : 2006
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by : Arnold Rampersad
Download or read book The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry written by Arnold Rampersad. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry covering over two centuries, and includes selections by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. Du Bois, and many more.
