1. Yusef Komunyakaa - Cover Page Includes generous selection of poetry, some in audio files, and discussion of this Vietnam veteran, journalist, editor, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet. http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/ipa/komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa Ode to the Maggot Ode to the Raccoon Lime Venus's-flytraps ... Anodyne Panel on the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Memories and the Vietnam War Experience in Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau Angela Salas "Facing it": The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Keith D. Leonard Yusef Komunyakaa's Libretto, "Testimony," and the Humanity of Charlie Parker Sascha Feinstein Select Bibliography Biography About these recordings Return to the Internet Poetry Archive Cover Page

2. Yusef Komunyakaa - Cover Page Yusef Komunyakaa. Ode to the Maggot. Ode to the Raccoon http://sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa Ode to the Maggot Ode to the Raccoon Lime Venus's-flytraps ... Anodyne Panel on the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Memories and the Vietnam War Experience in Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau Angela Salas "Facing it": The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Keith D. Leonard Yusef Komunyakaa's Libretto, "Testimony," and the Humanity of Charlie Parker Sascha Feinstein Select Bibliography Biography About these recordings Return to the Internet Poetry Archive Cover Page

3. New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers In America Chapter 47 -- Yusef Komunyakaa Chapter 47 Yusef komunyakaa yusef Komunyakaa, Yusef Komunyakaa (1947–). Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter47/custom1/deluxe-conte

Chapter 47: Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana , seventy miles from New Orleans. Immediately after high school graduation, Komunyakaa entered the Army, serving in Vietnam both as a war correspondent and as editor of The Southern Cross, a military newspaper. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service. Komunyakaa graduated with an M.F.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine, after earning a B.A. at the University of Colorado and an M.A. at Colorado State University. He first taught at the University of New Orleans. Since 1985, Komunyakaa has been a professor of English at Indiana University. A poet with twenty years of publishing experience, Komunyakaa received minimal recognition before winning a 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Neon Vernacular (1993), a collection of new poems and a wide range of selected poems from the seven collections published in the 1970s and 80s. Komunyakaa's Louisiana boyhood, his experiences in Vietnam, his interest in jazz and the blues, and his sense of African American history and artistic tradition figure largely in his poetry. Author Links Yusef Komunyakaa Internet Poetry Archives has compiled an excellent site, including RealAudio recordings of many of Komunyakaa's poems with written text, three scholarly articles on his work, a biography, and a select bibliography.

4. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa. Magic City Yusef Komunyakaa / Hardcover / Published 1992Our Price $25.00 (Back Ordered) Read more about this title http://www.cortlandreview.com/bookstore/komunyakaa.htm

Yusef Komunyakaa Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan Poetry) Ships in 2-3 days Yusef Komunyakaa / Paperback / Published 1988 Our Price: $9.56 ~ You Save: $2.39 (20%) Jazz Poetry Anthology Usually ships in 24 hours Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1991 Our Price: $12.76 ~ You Save: $3.19 (20%) Read more about this title... Jazz Poetry Anthology Ships in 2-3 days Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1991 Our Price: $41.95 Read more about this title... Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry) Ships in 2-3 days Yusef Komunyakaa / Paperback / Published 1992 Our Price: $9.56 ~ You Save: $2.39 (20%) Read more about this title... Neon Vernacular : New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) Usually ships in 24 hours Yusef Komunyakaa / Paperback / Published 1993 Our Price: $11.96 ~ You Save: $2.99 (20%) Read more about this title... The Second Set : The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Vol 2 Ships in 2-3 days Sascha Feinstein (Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996

5. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa, Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington Credits. http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v18n3/13c.html

Yusef Komunyakaa, Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington Credits

6. Interview: Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa is professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writingat Princeton University. Conversation With Yusef Komunyakaa NOVEMBER 28, 1997. http://www.rattle.com/rattle9/Interview.htm

Interview Yusef Komunyakaa is professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University. Wesleyan has published six of his ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Neon Vernacular (1993), which also won the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award from the Claremont Graduate School, Magic City (1992), and Dien Cai Dau (1988). In 1991, he won the Thomas Forcade Award, in 1993 was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, in 1994 received the William Faulkner Prize from the University of Rennes in France, and in 1997 he was awarded the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine and the Hanes Poetry Prize. His new book from Wesleyan is Thieves of Paradise Conversation With Yusef Komunyakaa NOVEMBER 28, 1997 By Alan Fox FOX: Who do you see as the audience for your work? KOMUNYAKAA: Initially, of course, I write for myself. I think most authors do, but in giving readings throughout the United States it's quite open, so I'm willing to keep surprising myself. I don't specifically write for a single individual in mind. I basically deal with images. The poet deals with images, metaphors and language like it's music. Consequently, it has a possibility of connecting to a variety of people. FOX: When you give readings is there any generalization as to the type of audience or response or the type of your poetry they respond to?

7. YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Is A Recipient Of The Pulitzer Prize For Poetry YUSEF komunyakaa yusef is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He is aprofessor of English and AfricanAmerican studies at Princeton University. http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~joiner/bios/Komunyakaa bio.html

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Yusef is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He is a professor of English and African-American studies at Princeton University. He was the Holloway poet at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990-91. His collections of poetry include: I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Lost in the Bonewheel Factory, Toys in a Field, Magic City, Neon Vernacular and Thieves of Paradise. Talking Dirty to the Gods was published in 2000, followed by Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems in 2001.Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries has been issued by the University of Michigan Press in the Poets on Poetry series. Yusef is a member of the Board of Chancellors. Back to List of Writers

8. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, theKingsley Tufts Award and the William Faulkner Prize. In 1999, He http://www.sanmiguelpoetry.com/yusef.html

Yusef Komunyakaa Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award and the William Faulkner Prize. In 1999, He was elected to the board of the Academy of American Poets. His recent work includes a CD of poetry along with the jazz music of John Tchicai, Love Notes from the Madhouse , and the book Thieves of Paradise , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Komunyakaa led workshops on the participants' poetry. Program Reviews Faculty Admission ... Home

9. Poetry Daily Feature: Yusef Komunyakaa Online Bookstore Listing Yusef komunyakaa yusef Komunyakaa is the author of elevenbooks of poems, including Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the National http://www.poems.com/talk2kom.htm

Body of a Dog from Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods Online Bookstore Listing Yusef Komunyakaa: Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of eleven books of poems, including Thieves of Paradise , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neon Vernacular , winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. In 1999 he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing program at Princeton University. (Photograph of Yusef Komunyakaa by Margaretta K. Mitchell) About Talking Dirty to the Gods No turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and gods in his inspired new collection. The poet has excluded shame from every facet of his consideration of the subject matter in Talking Dirty to the Gods , a volume in which each of the seven deadly sins is examined, evaluated, and brought to life (beginning with sloth). From "Hearsay" to "Heresy," these 132 new poems, each consisting of four four-line stanzas, are framed by innuendo and the kind of lively satire found in blues folklore. Komunyakaa looks to nature and configures his own paradigm, in which an event as commonplace as the jewel wasp laying an egg in a cockroach becomes every bit as grand as Zeus's infidelity. Yusef Komunyakaa has set himself a rigorous challenge in crafting the lyric poems in Talking Dirty to the Gods . The compression of his chosen form dictates an athletic use of language that engenders constantly surprising and delightful revelations.

10. Poetry Daily Feature: Yusef Komunyakaa Online Bookstore Listing Yusef komunyakaa yusef Komunyakaa is Professor in theCouncil of Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University and a http://www.poems.com/pleaskom.htm

Providence from Yusef Komunyakaa's Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems Online Bookstore Listing Yusef Komunyakaa: Neon Vernacular , as well as the William Faulkner Prize, the Levinson Prize from Poetry Magazine , the Hanes Poetry Prize, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Photograph of Yusef Komunyakaa by Jill Krementz) About Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems 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 over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems. "The poems of Yusef Komunyakaa, all bearing his unique stamp of heartbreaking integrity, tower over the landscape of American poetry." Molly Peacock Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan University Press 110 Mount Vernon Street Middletown, CT 06459-0433

11. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa Chastity Belt Invisible catches secret hooks, boneWithin bone trick locks. If a man needs this to hold Love http://www.certando.net/vali/komunyakaa.htm

var TlxPgNm='komunyakaa'; Yusef Komunyakaa Chastity Belt If a man needs this to hold Love in place, the master of keys Will always bite his nails To the quick. Tooled leather, Before his departure over a body Of tremulant water, he turns The key in the lock as they kiss. Like something alive, it sways Beneath his armor from a gold chain Around his neck, to the rhythm Of galloping hooves. Two days Later, with a dagger in his belly, Thick fingers tear the key from his throat. Return to Index

12. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa. 1941. Yusef Komunyakaa is a poet whose ninth book, Neon VernacularNew and Selected Poems, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0599KomunyakaaYusef.asp?pic=none

13. Yusef Komunyakaa YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA. Ode to a Squirrel. Good you can't hear The stories jibes inside My sleepy head, as someone Jokes about squirrel pie. http://www.webdelsol.com/pbq/issues/63/komunyakaa.html

14. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef komunyakaa yusef Komunyakaa is the author of twelve books ofpoetry, the most recent of which include Pleasure Dome New and http://www.aao.com.au/bios/yusek_komunyakaa.html

Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of twelve books of poetry, the most recent of which include Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems Talking Dirty to the Gods and Thieves of Paradise . The latter titles were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Forthcoming is a collection of poem entitled Scandalize My Name (Picador, UK). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Neon Vernacular in 1994. He has also published Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews and Commentaries and co-edited The Jazz Poetry Anthology and The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology . Poems of his have been selected regularly for the Best American Poetry and a recent essay appears in The Best American Essays of 2001. He received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize in May, 2001. Testimony , a musical work that tributes the life of Charlie Parker with composer Sandy Evans and Director Nigel Jamieson will be performed in Australia in 2003. Ish-scoodah , another performance work that focuses on Edmonia Lewis, the sculptor of Chippewa and African-American heritages also premieres in 2002. His collaborations with musicians have resulted in a number of CD recordings including Pamela Knowles:

15. Yusef Komunyakaa Books Yusef Komunyakaa Books. Neon Vernacular By Yusef Komunyakaa (hardcover April 1993). I Apologize For The Eyes In My Head By Yusef Komunyakaa. http://www.american-webshop.com/Yusef-Komunyakaa

American WebShoppe God Bless America Singer Index Author Index Top Selling Accessories ... Photo Yusef Komunyakaa Books Neon Vernacular By Yusef Komunyakaa (hardcover - April 1993) Listen Up!: Spoken Word Poetry By Zoe Anglesey (editor), Et Al (paperback - April 1999) Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems (wesleyan Poetry) By Yusef Komunyakaa (paperback - April 1993) Dien Cai Dau (wesleyan Poetry) By Yusef Komunyakaa (paperback - November 1988) Jazz Poetry Anthology By Sascha Feinstein (editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (editor) (paperback - June 1991) Talking Dirty To The Gods: Poems By Yusef Komunyakaa (hardcover - September 2000) Thieves Of Paradise (wesleyan Poetry) By Yusef Komunyakaa (paperback - April 2000) The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology, By Sascha Feinstein (editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (editor) (hardcover - December 1996) Interrogations By Leroy V. Quintana, Et Al (paperback - March 1990) I Apologize For The Eyes In My Head By Yusef Komunyakaa Magic City (wesleyan Poetry) By Yusef Komunyakaa (paperback - September 1992) Meteorology By Alpay Ulku, Yusef Komunyakaa (paperback)

16. Komunyakaa yusef, http://perso.wanadoo.es/joan-navarro/tigre/tigre1/komunyakaa.htm

yusef entrada Llibre del Tigre sèrieAlfa varia ... Berliner Mauer Yusef Komunyakaa Believing in iron Camouflaging the Chimera Meditations in a swine yard You and I are dissapearing ... Tu e io stamo sparendo You and I are dissapearing You and I are dissapearing Björn Håkansson The cry I bring down from the hills belongs to a girl still burning inside my head. At daybreak she burns like a piece of paper. She burns like foxfire in a tigh-shaped valley. A skirt of flames dances around her at dusk. We stand with our hands hanging at our sides, while she burns like a sack of dry ice. She burns like oil on water. She burns like a cattail torch dipped in gasoline. She glows like the fat tip silent as quicksilver. A tiger under a rainbow at nightfall. She burns like a shot glass of vodka. She burns like a field of poppies at the edge of a rain forest.

17. Yusef Komunyakaa - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/ykomufst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947. His numerous books of poems include (Wesleyan University Press, 2001); Talking Dirty to the Gods Thieves of Paradise (1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Magic City Dien Cai Dau (1988), which won The Dark Room Poetry Prize; I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Award; and Copacetic Komunyakaa's prose is collected in (University of Michigan Press, 2000). He also co-edited The Jazz Poetry Anthology (with J. A. Sascha Feinstein, 1991) and co-translated The Insomnia of Fire by Nguyen Quang Thieu (with Martha Collins, 1995). His honors include the William Faulkner Prize from the Université de Rennes, the Thomas Forcade Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Louisiana Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, where he served as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross . In 1999 he was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. He lives in New York City. This bio was last updated on Sep 7, 2001.

18. Yusef Komunyakaa To Read His Poems At The Library Of Congress On Thursday, April 12, poet yusef komunyakaa will read his poems at the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2001/01-056.html

Public Affairs Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington DC tel (202) 707-2905 fax (202) 707-9199 e-mail pao@loc.gov April 9, 2001 Press Contact: Craig D'Ooge (202) 707-9189 Public contact: Jennifer Rutland (202) 707-5395 Yusef Komunyakaa to Read His Poems at the Library of Congress On Thursday, April 12, poet Yusef Komunyakaa will read his poems at the Library of Congress. The program, presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, will be at 6:45 p.m. in the Montpelier Room on the 6th floor of the James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. Tickets are not required. Yusef Komunyakaa is Professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. His 12 books of poems include a new collection, Talking Dirty to the Gods Thieves of Paradise , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Magic City (1992);

19. Yusef Komunyakaa - Cover Page yusef komunyakaa Ode to the Maggot; Ode to the Raccoon; Lime; Venus'sflytraps;The Smoke House; Blackberries; Yellow Jackets; My Father's http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa/

Yusef Komunyakaa Ode to the Maggot Ode to the Raccoon Lime Venus's-flytraps ... Anodyne Panel on the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Memories and the Vietnam War Experience in Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau Angela Salas "Facing it": The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Keith D. Leonard Yusef Komunyakaa's Libretto, "Testimony," and the Humanity of Charlie Parker Sascha Feinstein Select Bibliography Biography About these recordings Return to the Internet Poetry Archive Cover Page

20. Yusef Komunyakaa - Biography Biography. yusef komunyakaa was born on 29 April 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. ByTomeiko Ashford. Return to the yusef komunyakaa Cover Page. http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa/bio.html

Biography Yusef Komunyakaa was born on 29 April 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He is the eldest of five children. Komunyakaa uses his childhood experiences to inform many of his works: his familial relationships, his maturation in a rural Southern community, and the musical environment afforded by the close proximity of the jazz and blues center of New Orleans provide fundamental themes for several of his volumes. Military service during young adulthood also proved formative to the budding poet. After graduating from Bogalusa's Central High School in 1965, Komunyakaa enlisted in the United States Army to begin a tour of duty in Vietnam. While there, he started writing, sometime between 1969 and 1970. As a correspondent for and later editor of the military newspaper, The Southern Cross , Komunyakaa mastered a journalistic style which he would later use in poetic efforts to assess objectively his time spent engaged in warfare. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his work with the paper. After leaving the army in the early 1970s, Komunyakaa enrolled at the University of Colorado, receiving a B.A. in 1975. While at Colorado, he discovered his nascent abilities as a poet in a creative writing workshop. The workshop, notes the author, was the first chance he had to write for himself. Even though he had long been an avid reader of poetry and a lover of literature, his attempts to write creativelymainly short storieshad been unsuccessful. Inspired by his newfound love and talent, Komunyakaa went on to earn an M.A. from Colorado State University in 1978, studying with poet Bill Tremblay in the graduate writing program. Meanwhile, he continued to practice his art, self-publishing two limited editions

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Page 1     1-20 of 93    1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | Next 20