The Collected Poems of Ai(1st Edition) by YusefKomunyakaa Ai, George C. Richardson, Ingrid Frank Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07490-1, ISBN: 0-393-07490-0 "“Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy HarjoBefore her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume. from “The Cockfighter’s Daughter” I found ..."
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 (Hardback) by YusefKomunyakaa Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2021 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-60013-6, ISBN: 0-374-60013-9 "The new poems in this collection add a new refrain to the jazz-inflected rhythms of one of our “most significant and individual voices” (David Wojahn, Poetry)."
Night Animals by YusefKomunyakaa Published 2020 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-59-0, ISBN: 1-946448-59-1 "The poems in Night Animals, by Yusef Komunyakaa, climb so deeply into the being of various beasts, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition."
Night Animals (The Quarternote Chapbook Series) by YusefKomunyakaa, Rachel Bliss Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2020 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-58-3, ISBN: 1-946448-58-3 "The poems in Night Animals, by Yusef Komunyakaa, climb so deeply into the being of various beasts, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition. Without ever fully abandoning his human skin, Komunyakaa inhabits both the outer and inner lives of these creatures. The images are a brilliant match for the poems, each of Rachel Bliss’s surreal animals populate a realm somewhere between our two ..."
The Bookshop on Lafayette Street Stories and Poems by Doc Long, Eric Maywar, YusefKomunyakaa Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2019 by Ragged Sky Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933974-32-3, ISBN: 1-933974-32-X "We never planned to write this book. In 2017, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa was working on an epic poem and part of it took place at Classics Books. Independently, I was working on some flash fiction that also took place at Classics Books. We bumped into each other (at Classics Books) and decided that we should collaborate on a collection of poems and stories that all take place at our favorite bookstore. We thought a col ..."
Songs from a Yahi Bow A Series of Poems on Ishi by Mike O'connor, YusefKomunyakaa, Scott Ezell 55 Pages, Published 2018 by Pbs Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-5457-2234-3, ISBN: 1-5457-2234-X "Ishi in Three Centuries compiles a vast range of recent scholarship and essays
into “the first substantial ... The book is narrated in memoir fashion, and tells of
Starn's involvement with the people that ultimately revealed the ... Wild Men: Ishi
and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America, by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
."
Condition Red Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries by YusefKomunyakaa 238 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-12274-5, ISBN: 0-472-12274-6 "Notes 1. Geoffrey C. Ward, The West: An Illustrated History (Boston: Little Brown,
1996), 30. 2. Yusef Komunyakaa, “Looking for Choctaw,” in Magic City (
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1992), 25. 3. Komunyakaa, “Mill
Pond,” in Magic City, 17. 4. Komunyakaa, “Poetics of Paperwood,” in Magic City,
50. 5. Sophie Cabot Black, “Nature, Who Misunderstands,” in The
Misunderstanding of Nature (Saint Paul: Graywolf, 1994), 54. ..."
Jacob Lawrence(Reprint) The Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, YusefKomunyakaa, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young, Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-040-0, ISBN: 1-63345-040-6 "Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..."
Condition Red Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets On Poetry) by YusefKomunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05344-5, ISBN: 0-472-05344-2 "Condition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that “we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we ..."
Poets on Poetry Ser. Condition Red : Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries by YusefKomunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-07344-3, ISBN: 0-472-07344-3 "Condition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that “we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we ..."
The Emperor of Water Clocks(Reprint) Poems by YusefKomunyakaa, Jeff Clark Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53657-2, ISBN: 0-374-53657-0 "The wildly enchanting new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa"If I am not Ulysses, I am / his dear, ruthless half brother." So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, "The Emperor of Water Clocks." And Ulysses (or his half brother) is but one of the characters Komunyakaa conjures over the course of this densely lyrical book. Here his speaker observes a doomed court jester; here another r ..."
From Now On New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015 by Clarence Major, YusefKomunyakaa Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4796-7, ISBN: 0-8203-4796-5 "Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. Major s works and this collection in particular are distinguished by his poetic sociability and his unblinking but generous and affectionate portraiture.In "From Now On," ..."
The Emperor of Water Clocks(1st Edition) Poems by YusefKomunyakaa, Jeff Clark Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14783-9, ISBN: 0-374-14783-3 "The wildly enchanting new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa "If I am not Ulysses, I am / his dear, ruthless half-brother." So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, "The Emperor of Water Clocks." But Ulysses (or his half brother) is but one of the beguiling guises Komunyakaa dons over the course of this densely lyrical book. Here his speaker observes a doomed court jester; here he is ..."
