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Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780819567390)
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xYusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.
Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
ISBN-10: 0819567396
ISBN-13: 9780819567390
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2004
Pages: 445
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/21/2004 pg. 36
By Yusef Komunyakaa
xYUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the creative writing department at New York University. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and many other awards for poetic achievement, including the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 2004 Shelley Memorial Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Levinson Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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