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Jazz Poetry Anthology
Av Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa
Häftad, 1991
333 kr
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" . . . in a class by itself . . . sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery . . . the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." —Jazziz Magazine"In the course of the history of jazz, there have been only a few articles that get to the core of the meaning of jazz. These poems hit it right on …
Second Set, Vol. 2
The Jazz Poetry Anthology
Av S H COLEMAN MEML LBRY, Sascha Feinstein m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
284 kr
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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 …
Emperor of Water Clocks
Poems
Häftad, 2016
164 kr
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If I am not Ulysses, l 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 …
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
E-bok, 2021
208 kr
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Traverse the Earth''s soul in Yusef Komunyakaa''s powerful new collection of poetry "These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel." Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together …
Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters
Poems
Av Laren McClung, Yusef Komunyakaa
Häftad, 2026
312 kr
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A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic. Let's go back far as we dare to go back to that land bridge made of untrusting earth & ice, to a boorish faith in our rhythm of footsteps, the fleeting mantra of wordless dreams . . . So begins Trading Riffs to Slay …
Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters
Poems
Av Laren McClung, Yusef Komunyakaa
E-bok, 2026
235 kr
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A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic. Let's go back far as we dareto go back to that land bridgemade of untrusting earth & ice,to a boorish faith in our rhythmof footsteps, the fleeting mantraof wordless dreams . . . So begins Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters, …
Blue Notes
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus
Häftad, 2000
389 kr
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Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa's writing on contemporary poetry and music. The book is arranged in four sections. The first gathers essays on the work of poets and blues and jazz musicians influential to Komunyakaa's work, from Langston Hughes and Etheridge Knight to Ma …
Condition Red
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus
E-bok, 2017
435 kr
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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 …
I Said That Love Heals from Inside
Love Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Oliver Egger
Häftad, 2025
103 kr
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A chapbook of love poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa/>/>I Said That Love Heals From Inside: Love Poems is a small treasure featuring five decades of love poems by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Komunyakaa is a poet whose work aches with a longing that is rarely easily …
Magic City
Häftad, 1992
234 kr
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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 …
Neon Vernacular
Häftad, 1993
286 kr
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An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.
Best American Poetry 2003
Series Editor David Lehman
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman
E-bok, 2008
173 kr
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"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his …
Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Shirley A. James Hanshaw
Inbunden, 2010
1437 kr
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Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) describes his work alternately as ""word paintings"" and as ""music,"" and his affinity with the visual …
Night Animals
E-bok, 2020
164 kr
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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 …
Condition Red
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus
Häftad, 2017
441 kr
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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 …
Condition Red
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus
Inbunden, 2017
1295 kr
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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 …
Blue Notes
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Av Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus
Inbunden, 2000
1374 kr
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Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa's writing on contemporary poetry and music. The book is arranged in four sections. The first gathers essays on the work of poets and blues and jazz musicians influential to Komunyakaa's work, from Langston Hughes and Etheridge Knight to Ma …
Gilgamesh
Av Chad Gracia, Yusef Komunyakaa
Häftad, 2009
256 kr
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Bringing new life to the world's oldest story, Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia have refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a compelling verse play. In this ageless saga, Gilgamesh of Uruk, part god and part man, embarks on an other-worldly quest in search of immortality. This new version …
