| Description |
vi, 128 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Wesleyan poetry |
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Wesleyan poetry.
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| Summary |
Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa delivers a powerful meditation on American, and particularly African American, life in the wake of Vietnam. In poems overflowing with language, memories of childhood are tinged with memories of war. Drawing on multiple traditions, Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music. |
| Contents |
Way Stations -- Memory Cave -- Out There There Be Dragons -- The Song Thief -- Wet Nurse -- Ode to a Drum -- Eclogue at Daybreak -- Genealogy -- Kosmos -- Confluence -- Palimpsest -- Mumble Peg -- Ia Drang Valley -- Cenotaph -- The Trapper's Bride -- Eclogue at Twilight -- Tropic of Capricorn -- The Tally -- Heroes of Waterloo -- Wokanmagulli -- Waratah -- New Gold Mountain -- White Lady -- Meditations on a Dingo -- Report from The Lucky Country -- In the Mirror -- The Piccolo -- John Says -- Corners of Night -- Messages -- Visitation -- Bennelong's Blues -- Quatrains for Ishi -- The Glass Ark -- Debriefing Ghosts -- Nude Interrogation -- The Poplars -- Surgery -- Phantasmagoria -- A Summer Night in Hanoi -- A Reed Boat. |
| Subject |
African American poets -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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African American poets. (OCoLC)fst00799304
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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American poetry -- African American authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807349
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| ISBN |
0819563307 (cloth) |
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9780819563309 (cloth) |
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0819564222 (pbk.) |
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9780819564221 (pbk.) |
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0819563315 (pbk.) |
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9780819563316 (pbk.) |
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1819564222 (pbk.) |
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