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Yusef Komunyakaa
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Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947.
His numerous poetry collections include Taboo, Talking Dirty to the Gods; Thieves of
Paradise, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle
Award; Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989, for which
he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award;
Dien Cai Dau, which won The Dark Room Poetry Prize; and I
Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, winner of the San Francisco Poetry
Center Award.
Komunyakaa's prose is collected in Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews
& Commentaries. He also
co-edited The Jazz Poetry Anthology with J. A. Sascha Feinstein and co-translated The Insomnia of Fire by Nguyen Quang Thieu with
Martha Collins.
Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor in the Council of Humanities and
Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. He lives in New York
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Komunyakaa Online
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Listen to Komunyakaa read "My Father's Love Letters." >>More
The Ploughshares profile of Komunyakaa. >>More
The Bookslut review of his new book Taboo. >>More
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