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Author Komunyakaa, Yusef.

Title Pleasure dome : new and collected poems / Yusef Komunyakaa.

Publication Info. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.54 K836    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  811 KOM    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  811 KOMUNYAKAA    Check Shelf
Description xv, 445 pages ; 22 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents New poems -- Early uncollected -- Dedications and other darkhorses -- Lost in the bonewheel factory -- Copacetic -- Toys in the field -- I apologize for the eyes in my head -- Dien cai Dau -- February in Sydney -- Magic city -- Neon vernacular -- Thieves of paradise.
Summary 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 over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.
Subject African American authors.
American poetry -- African American authors.
African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00799028
American poetry -- African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807349
Genre/Form Gedichten (teksten) (NL-LeOCL)112192203
ISBN 0819564257 (alk. paper)
9780819564252 (alk. paper)
0819567396 (pbk.)
9780819567390 (pbk.)
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