Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa

Magic City

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Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa

Wesleyan University Press

Magic City

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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.

Book Details
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN:
9780819512086
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
68
Authors:
Yusef Komunyakaa
Published Date:
1992-10-09
Language:
English
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About Yusef Komunyakaa

Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Yusef Komunyakaa served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1970 as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross during the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star. He holds a BA from the University of Colorado Springs, an MA from Colorado State University, and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His collection Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977–1989 (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Other collections include Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan, 1988) and Talking Dirty to the Gods (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000). He is a distinguished senior poet at New York University.

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