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The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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Hardcover:

9780374147839 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 6, 2015, cover price $23.00

Testimony, a Tribute to Charlie Parker: With New and Selected Jazz Poems

By Sandy Evans (composer), Sascha Feinstein (contributor), Paul Grabowsky (contributor), Yusef Komunyakaa and Christopher Williams (contributor)

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Hardcover:

9780819574299 | Har/com edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 18, 2013), cover price $30.00

The Collected Poems of Ai

By Ai and Yusef Komunyakaa (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9780393074901 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 4, 2013), cover price $35.00

The Chameleon Couch: Poems

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780374533144 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012), cover price $14.00

Songs from a Yahi Bow: A Series of Poems On Ishi

By Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thomas Merton and Mike O'Connor

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9781929355679 | Pleasure Boat Studio, March 15, 2011, cover price $13.95

Warhorses: Poems

This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo and Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "The Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted, desperate prophet. Warhorses is the stunning work of a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780374286439 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 30, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual.

Paperback:

9780374531911 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 13, 2009, cover price $14.00

Gilgamesh: A Verse Play

By Chad Gracia and Yusef Komunyakaa

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Hardcover:

9780819568243 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, October 16, 2006, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780819568250 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $15.95

Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church

Product Description: With an introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Covenant is, in the words of photographer Tyagan Miller, "a record of things seen and heard in uncommon circumstances, the view of life that underlies it, reflect[ing] the mutual aspiration of human beings everywhere...read more

By Yusef Komunyakaa and Tyagan Miller (photographer)

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9780253348357 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: With an introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Covenant is, in the words of photographer Tyagan Miller, "a record of things seen and heard in uncommon circumstances, the view of life that underlies it, reflect[ing] the mutual aspiration of human beings everywhere.

We Jews and Blacks: Memoir With Poems

By Willis Barnstone and Yusef Komunyakaa (contributor)

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Hardcover:

9780253344199 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780253219213 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $19.95

The Silence of Men: Poems

Product Description: The Silence of Men confronts and breaks the silence in men’s lives surrounding sex, family, power and violence; graphic and intimate, celebratory and heartbreakingly painful, these are the poems of a survivor for whom writing, because it breaks that silence, has been a primary means of survival...read more

By Yusef Komunyakaa (foreword by) and Richard Jeffrey Newman

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9780972304580 | Cavankerry Pr Ltd, June 30, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Silence of Men confronts and breaks the silence in men’s lives surrounding sex, family, power and violence; graphic and intimate, celebratory and heartbreakingly painful, these are the poems of a survivor for whom writing, because it breaks that silence, has been a primary means of survival.

Taboo

Product Description: With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In Taboo he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature...read more

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780374530150 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 21, 2006, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother.

Lost in the Bonewheel Factory

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780899240183 | Lynx House Books, February 28, 2006, cover price $14.95

Rhinoceros

Product Description: Kevin Ducey’s Rhinoceros was selected from over 1,000 manuscripts by Yusef Komunyakaa for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. With lyrical turns and metaphorical sways, Rhinoceros embodies mythologies that are brought down to earth and riffs on history, desire, death, sex and food...read more

By Kevin Ducey and Yusef Komunyakaa (introduced by)

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9780971898165 | Copper Canyon Pr, August 15, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Kevin Ducey’s Rhinoceros was selected from over 1,000 manuscripts by Yusef Komunyakaa for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize.

Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy

A collection of poetry informed by the elusive and improvisational riffs of jazz explores a world of interconnectivity as it assesses the roles of blacks in Western history and how these roles are captured in literature and art.

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780374291488 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry informed by the elusive and improvisational riffs of jazz explores a world of interconnectivity as it assesses the roles of blacks in Western history and how these roles are captured in literature and art.

Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems

Presents a collection of previously published works, early uncollected works, and eighteen new poems.

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780819564252 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 7, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of previously published works, early uncollected works, and eighteen new poems.

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9780819567390 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 20, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of previously published works, early uncollected works, and eighteen new poems.

A Dream of Summer: Poems for the Sensuous Season

Brings together some forty evocative poems by English-language authors that reflect on the experience, sensuality, and joy of the summer season, with works by Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and Charles Simic, among others.

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9780807068724 | Beacon Pr, June 15, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Brings together some forty evocative poems by English-language authors that reflect on the experience, sensuality, and joy of the summer season, with works by Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and Charles Simic, among others.

The Best American Poetry 2003

An annual installment collects the past year's most significant works of poetry and pays tribute to the genre's key names, in a volume that includes contributions by Richard Wilbur, Billy Collins, and Joshua Clover. Simultaneous. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Yusef Komunyakaa (editor)

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9780743203876 | Scribner, August 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An annual installment collects the past year's most significant works of poetry and pays tribute to the genre's key names, in a volume that includes contributions by Richard Wilbur, Billy Collins, and Joshua Clover.

Paperback:

9780743203883 | Scribner, September 1, 2003, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

Reinforced:

9780606289733, titled "Best American Poetry 2003" | Demco Media, August 1, 2003, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: The Best American Poetry is not just a poetry collection; it's an eagerly anticipated event.

Talking Dirty to the Gods

Product Description: A daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award . . . A god isn't worthA drop of water in the hell of his goodImagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake himIn his storehouse of belladonna,Tiger hornets, & snakebites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780374527938 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 12, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award .

The Eye of the Poet: 6 Views of the Art and Craft of Poetry

By David Baker (editor), David Citino, Billy Collins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Carol Muske and Ann Townsend

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9780195132557 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 26, 2001, cover price $49.95

Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet-author of the critically acclaimed Thieves of Paradise explores rituals that link humans, animals, and insects in this lively, often satirical collection of poems. (view table of contents)

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780374272555 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems explores rituals that link humans, animals, and insects.

Thieves of Paradise

A collection of poetry that describes African American life

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780819563309 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry that describes African American life

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9780819564221 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry that describes African American life

Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

Product Description: Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa's writing on contemporary poetry and music. The book is arranged in four sections. The first gathers essays on the work of poets and blues and jazz musicians influential to Komunyakaa's work, from Langston Hughes and Etheridge Knight to Ma Rainey and Thelonious Monk; the second collects a gallery of Komunyakaa's poems and the poet's commentary about each of them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Radiclani Clytus (editor) and Yusef Komunyakaa

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9780472066513 | Univ of Michigan Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa's writing on contemporary poetry and music.

Triquarterly Issue 105

Product Description: Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of Susan Firestone Hahn, TriQuarterly continues to publish the best work of both established and new poets and fiction writers...read more

By Dannie Abse, Edward Falco, David Ferry, Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips, Ira Sadoff and Wislawa Szymborska

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9780810159044 | Triquarterly Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country.

Ploughshares Spring 1997

Product Description: Ploughshares, a premier literary journal, is published by Emerson College, publishing the best current (and in back issues such as this one, the best current of the time) poets, fiction and nonfiction authors and art. This issue features fiction by Tony Ardizzone, Carolyn Ferrell, John McCluskey Jr (J...read more

By Yusef Komunyakaa (editor)

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9780933277199 | Ploughshares Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Ploughshares, a premier literary journal, is published by Emerson College, publishing the best current (and in back issues such as this one, the best current of the time) poets, fiction and nonfiction authors and art.

The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology,

Product Description: With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omitted from The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane di Prima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, Eugene B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sascha Feinstein (editor) and Yusef Komunyakaa (editor)

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9780253330536 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry.

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