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1	Dien Cai Dau more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author. see all copies from $4.70! new only from $10.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam. see all copies from $4.44! new only from $13.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Magic City more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana. see all copies from $5.17! new only from $11.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Listen Up!: Spoken Word Poetry more books like this by Zoe Angelsey (Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Foreword by) add to wishlist A veteran anthologist of the form has collected works by nine brilliant award-winning scribes of the top spoken word artists who ignite audiences worldwide with their soulful verse. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Gilgamesh: A Verse Play more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa, Chad Gracia add to wishlist This title provides the first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh. Bringing new life to the world's oldest story, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa and dramaturg Chad Gracia have refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a compelling verse play. This new version is like no other and will take its place among the most powerful and engaging ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $10.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Thieves of Paradise more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Taboo more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist The Paint-Box artists color in Adam & Eve, using every hue & cry of temptation. Because God blends into the darkness the faces keep coming off. --from "Chiaroscuro" With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer ... see all copies from $2.24! new only from $2.24! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Best American Poetry 2003: Series Editor David Lehman more books like this by David Lehman (Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) add to wishlist An annual installment collects the past year's most significant works of poetry and pays tribute to the genre's key names, in a volume that includes contributions by Richard Wilbur, Billy Collins, and Joshua Clover. Simultaneous. 40,000 first printing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
9	The Jazz Poetry Anthology more books like this by Sascha Feinstein (Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) add to wishlist Since the turn of the century, poets have responded to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones. The poems here cover the range of jazz itself: from early blues to free jazz and experimental music. Among the 132 poets included are James Baldwin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Mina Loy, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. ... see all copies from $3.81! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Talking Dirty to the Gods more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) add to wishlist This renowned poet's 11th collection is populated by an eclectic cast including eminent figures of the Greek Pantheon, Godzilla, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rodin, and Darwin's finches. Though the dramatis personae are diverse, the form of the poems--always four unrhymed quatrains--provides an even grid to support the diverse references and subject matter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.44! \| first editions
11 view cover	Rhinoceros more books like this by Kevin Ducey, Yusef Komunyakaa (Introduction by) add to wishlist Kevin Ducey's "Rhinoceros" was selected from over 1,000 manuscripts by Yusef Komunyakaa for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. With lyrical turns and metaphorical sways, "Rhinoceros" embodies mythologies that are brought down to earth and riffs on history, desire, death, sex and food. We have lunch with Hawking and Disney before stopping in to ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.40!
12 view cover	Pleasure Dome more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist This volume presents the full breadth of Komunyakaa's career, from his debut collection of poems COPACETIC, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning NEON VERNACULAR, and to THIEVES OF PARADISE. Early uncollected poems are also included. see all copies from $7.15! new only from $17.51! \| first editions
13 view cover	Second Set more books like this by Sascha Feinstein (Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) add to wishlist With "The Jazz Poetry Anthology", this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry. "The Second Set" gathers many poets omitted from "The Jazz Poetry Anthology", including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane di Prima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist A daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award . . . A god isn't worth A drop of water in the hell of his good Imagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake him In his storehouse of belladonna, Tiger hornets, & snakebites. --from "Meditations in a Swine Yard" No turn in any life cycle is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Warhorses more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist This 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 ... see all copies from $12.25! new only from $17.15! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist 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 the poems in these two distinguished books and five others - over two and a ... see all copies from $12.61! new only from $20.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (Editor) add to wishlist Yusef Komunyakaa discusses the influences of blues and jazz music and poetry on his own writing, comments on some of his own poems, selects interviews that reveal the artistic sensibility of poets and explores some of his own current interests.' see all copies from $2.49! new only from $12.06! \| SVS
18 view cover	Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church more books like this by Tyagan Miller (Photographer), Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist A stunning collection of photographs celebrating the community and spirit of African American life see all copies from $10.92! new only from $16.15! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Meteorology more books like this by Alpay Ulku, Yusef Komunyakaa (Foreword by) add to wishlist Alpay Ulku's poems move easily over the surface of both the natural and the human landscapes, and draw from the leaping/deep image poetics of Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, and James Wright. Though triggered by contemporary events, the poems reimagine past events while simultaneously reflecting on the world of the next century. see all copies from $3.56! new only from $7.52! \| first editions
20	Copacetic more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist see all copies from $15.96! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Scandalize My Name: Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist Introducing one of America's Pulitzer-winning poets to British readers Yusef Komunyakaa is one of America's most highly regarded and compelling poets. His poetry has been acclaimed as among the most original of his generation. Yet his work is little-known in Britain. All that is set to change with the publication of SCANDALIZE MY NAME, a selection ... see all copies from $13.92! new only from $13.92!
22 view cover	Collected Poems more books like this by Lynda Hull, Yusef Komunyakaa (Introduction by) add to wishlist The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty) "If each of us contains, within, humankind's totality, each possibility then I have been so fractured, so multiple & dazzling . . . "--from "The Window" Lynda Hull's "Collected Poems "brings together her three collections ... see all copies from $7.56! new only from $7.96! \| SVS
23	I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist see all copies from $48.00! signed copies \| first editions
24	Interrogations more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa (Designer), Leroy V Quintana, Kali Tal (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $60.00! signed copies \| first editions
25	Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age by Kimiko Hahn Linh Dinh, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ron Silliman, Fred Wah add to wishlist see all copies from $4.92!

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