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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.
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Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975. --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature
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An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.
English poetry. --- Poems. --- Poetry.
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Poetry --- American literature --- Music --- anno 1900-1999 --- MUSIC --- AMERICAN POETRY --- JAZZ --- 20th CENTURY --- AFRO-AMERICAN AUTHORS
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Sociology of minorities --- Caribbean area --- United States of America
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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 , a retrospective of poems from the 1950's to the present-including selections from each of Major's previous books of poetry as well as a generous selection of new
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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 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 species-birds with teeth, men with antlers, a duck wearing suspenders. Both image and word are dense and dark, intensely focused around a kind of hunger. The poet has been startling us with his rich, disturbing, and important poems for many years. Night Animals extends Yusef Komunyakaa's remarkable oeuvre"--
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