{"product_id":"condition-red-yusef-komunyakaa-9780472053445","title":"Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries","description":"\u003ci\u003eCondition Red\u003c\/i\u003e collects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. \u003ci\u003eCondition Red\u003c\/i\u003e includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that \"we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels, plays, poems, or songs.\" Also included are essays and interviews on: coming home to Bogalusa, Louisiana; the influence of religion on black poetry; language and eroticism; the visual artist Floyd Tunson; and the poets Robert Hayden, Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Etheridge Knight. The book features an extended introduction by editor Radiclani Clytus, who concludes that \"\u003ci\u003eCondition Red\u003c\/i\u003e issues readers much more than a critical warning; it reminds us that our innate cultural capacity for language is, and always has been, the sum total of that which defines us.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472053442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472053445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Yusef Komunyakaa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086699802879,"sku":"9780472053445","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_077c3239-8fb9-4a4b-8951-1b404b4d4a5e.jpg?v=1769096065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/condition-red-yusef-komunyakaa-9780472053445","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}