Description
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.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 10/09/1992
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.62w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9780819512086
ISBN10: 0819512087
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
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.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 10/09/1992
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.62w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9780819512086
ISBN10: 0819512087
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
About the Author
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.