Neon Vernacular New and Selected Poems

Name: Neon Vernacular New and Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780819512116

ISBN-10: 0819512117

ISBN-13: 9780819512116

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Authors: Yusef Komunyakaa

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
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.



Fog Galleon


At the Screen Door


Moonshine


Salt


Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen


Work


Praising Dark Places


A Good Memory


Birds on a Powerline


Fever


Little Man Around the House


Songs for My Father


The Tongue Is


Chair Gallows


Translating Footsteps


Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes


1938


Stepfather: A Girl's Song


Apprenticeship


Light on the Subject


Beg Song


Passions


The Dog Act


For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors


The Nazi Doll


Corrigenda


False Leads


Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror


The Way the Cards Fall


Annabelle


Faith Healer


More Girl Than Boy


April Fools' Day


Untitled Blues


Back Then


Blasphemy


Safe Subjects


Black String of Days


Villon / Leadbelly


Elegy for Thelonious


Copacetic Mingus


Letter to Bob Kaufman


Woman, I Got the Blues


Newport Beach, 1979


Gloria's Clues


Charmed


The Cage Walker


Addendum


Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival


Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival


Unnatural State of the Unicorn


Touch-up Man


How I See Things


The Thorn Merchant


The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man


The Heart's Graveyard Shift


Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes


The Music That Hurts


When in Rome - Apologia


The Thorn Merchant's Wife


The Thorn Merchant's Mistress


After Summer Fell Apart


The Brain to the Heart


Audacity of the Lower Gods


The Falling-Down Song


The Thorn Merchant's Son


I Apologize


1984


Dreambook Bestiary


Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga's Dream


Landscape for the Disappeared


Good Joe


In the Background of Silence


For the Walking Dead


Child's Play


The Beast and Burden: Seven Improvisations


Ambush


Monsoon Season


Water Buffalo


Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring


Please


Camouflaging the Chimera


Tunnels


Starlight Scope Myopia


Hanoi Hannah


"You and I Are Disappearing"


Re-creating the Scene


We Never Know


A Break from the Bush


Tu Do Street


Communique


Prisoners


Jungle Surrender


Thanks


To Have Danced with Death


Report from the Skull's Diorama


Boat People


Missing in Action


Facing It


The Plea


The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally


Rocks Push


When Loneliness Is A Man


A Quality of Light


Gerry's Jazz


Boxing Day


Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage


Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel


February in Sydney