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Availability:In StockContributor:Yusef KomunyakaaSeries:Wesleyan PoetryPublish date:1992-10-09Pages:68
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819512086ISBN-10:819512087UPC:9780819512086Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.48 x 5.62 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCCK8N6D3J

An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.

Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819512086ISBN-10:819512087UPC:9780819512086Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.48 x 5.62 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCCK8N6D3J

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the creative writing department at New York University. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and many other awards for poetic achievement, including the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 2004 Shelley Memorial Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Levinson Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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