Neon Vernacular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neon Vernacular write by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1993-04-30. Neon Vernacular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Neon Vernacular
Neon Vernacular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neon Vernacular write by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1993-04-30. Neon Vernacular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.
Dien Cai Dau
Dien Cai Dau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dien Cai Dau write by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1988-09-01. Dien Cai Dau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Warhorses
Warhorses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warhorses write by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Warhorses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
Pleasure Dome
Pleasure Dome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pleasure Dome write by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 2004-09-20. Pleasure Dome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
