Product Details

• Actors: Yusef Komunyakaa
• Format: Color
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lannan Foundation
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: B001DW2RG4

Editorial Reviews

Yusef Komunyakaa, the author of eight collections of poetry, was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947. Mr. Komunyakaa has written about his childhood in a rural southern town as well as his experiences in Vietnam, where he received a Bronze Star and was the editor of The Southern Cross. Mr. Komunyakaa, who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, read from Magic City, Neon Vernacular and Thieves of Paradise on November 11, 1997. He talked with Toi Derricotte, the author of four books of poetry, including Tender and Captivity, and a memoir, The Black Notebooks.