Book Description
A collection of poems in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines and evaluates each of the seven deadly sins.
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374272557
A collection of poems in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines and evaluates each of the seven deadly sins.
Author : Coranna Beene
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374531919
Warhorses is the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers. This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo or Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted but desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines "the old masters of Shock & Awe" daydreaming of "lovely Penelope / like a trophy."
Author : Angela M. Salas
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781575910826
In doing so, the author seeks to convince readers that Komunyakaa has never been solely interested in dealing with the complexities of race in his work, although he does so to stunning effect in such works as Dien Cai Dau, a volume invoking the horrors of the war in Vietnam."--Jacket.
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374604851
"A selection of new and previously published poems from the celebrated poet"--
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2004-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0819567396
Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.
Author : William Roetzheim
Publisher : Level4Press Inc
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780976800125
Winner or finalist in the 'Best Books' National Book Award Poetry Anthology of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year; Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year; and the Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction. Over 750 pages of poetry spanning from 4,000 BC up to the present day and including a broad cross-section of global poetry. Footnotes for each poem specify each poem's form, define unusual or archaic words, and include notes about interpretation. Multiple indexes, including an index by subject, simplify finding exactly the right poem for any situation. The poems were specifically selected to appeal to readers new to poetry, but even experienced poetry readers will find new and enjoyable poems. The poems from the book are also available on audio CD.
Author : Judith Tarr
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2000-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812564662
When a troubled housewife awakens one morning as a tavernkeeper in the Roman frontier town of Carnuntum around 170 A.D., she must face plague and war in order to survive and prosper in her new life.
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0819573787
This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist
Author : Katee Robert
Publisher : Sourcebooks Casablanca
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728231730
Society darling Persephone Dimitriou wants nothing to do with her mother's ambitions. She's biding her time until she's able to leave the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start her doctorate degree. The one thing she never planned on? Her mother ambushing her with an engagement to Zeus--a man with more than a few dead wives in his past. Persephone will do anything to escape that fate...even flee the sparkling upper city and make a devil's bargain with a man she once believed was a myth. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. Not even for the woman who flees into his territory as if the very hounds of hell are on her heels. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he's spent his entire life craving? It's all the excuse he needs to agree to help her--for a price. She'll be his for the summer, and then he'll see her safely out of Olympus and away from her mother and Zeus. Hades and Persephone's deal might seem simple enough, but they both quickly realize it's anything but. With every breathless night spent with Hades, Persephone wonders at her ability to leave him behind. And Hades? Now that he has a taste for Persephone, he's willing to go to war with Olympus itself to keep her...