Magic City

Name: Magic City
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ISBN: 9780819512086

ISBN-10: 0819512087

ISBN-13: 9780819512086

Edition: 1992

Authors: Yusef Komunyakaa

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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

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 10/9/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 68
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Yusef Komunyakka's eleven books of poems include Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.



Venus's-flytraps


The Whistle


Playthings


Yellow Dog Cafe


Happiness


Seasons Between Yes and No


Glory


April's Anarchy


The Millpond


Immolatus


Banking Potatoes


The Smokehouse


Tbe Steel Plate


Sunday Afternoons


Looking for Choctaw


Fleshing-out the Season


Blackberries


Yellowjackets


Gristmill


History Lessons


Temples of Smoke


Boys in Dresses


Nude Tango


Touch


Sugar


Albino


Halloween, the Late Fifties


Mismatched Shoes


My Father's Love Letters


The Cooling Board


Omen


Believing in Iron


Salome


Between Angels and Monsters


Poetics of Paperwood


Slam, Dunk, and Hook


Sex, Magnolias, and Speed


Knights of the White Camellia and Deacons of Defense


Nocturne


Butterfly-Toed Shoes


Acknowledgments