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Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Paperback – September 15, 1992

by Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)
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An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.

Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.

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  1. Print length
    68 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Wesleyan University Press
  4. Publication date
    September 15, 1992
  5. Dimensions
    5.62 x 0.22 x 8.48 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0819512087
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0819512086
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"His finest book to date―the most ambitious, the richest in writing and psychological drama, the most emotionally and intellectually demanding. It feels as though he has raised this book out of the darkest regions of his art and life"―Sherod Santos

"Magic City celebrates the splendors of imagination's birth in childhood. We're in a completely new poetic universe―the natal world of Bogaloosa, Louisiana with its voodoo and gullah songs, worries about the Klan, zigzag lightning bugs, Mardi Gras flambeaus, pigweed, and chain-gangs by the roadside. Komunyakaa gives to these, his firstnesses, savoring poetic homages that float like butterflies, sting like bees. What language, what pain, what beauty."―Garrett Hongo

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5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 92-53863

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wesleyan University Press; First Edition (September 15, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 68 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0819512087
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0819512086
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.99 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 0.22 x 8.48 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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    Item was of optimal quality. Notably fascinating packaging. Select delivery. A++!
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  • luvgrdane
    4.0 out of 5 stars Magic City poetry series
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013
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    This book was recommended to me to add to my poetry collection. It is a book that you can pick up and read a few poems and then put down to try to think of the meaning. It is written very well. Just takes a bit of thinking to understand.
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  • Lee Ann Roripaugh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Down Home Blues
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2002
    Magic City remains, perhaps, my favorite volume out of Yusef Komunyakaa's distinguished body of work. With his characteristic blues and jazz-inflected lyricism, Komunyakaa revisits the harrowing violence and racism of the deep south as viewed through a piercingly translucent prism of personal memory. The poems making up this volume are in many respects a poetry of witness, and the eyes through which which this gritty psychic landscape is revealed to the reader penetrate various scenes of troubled family life, poverty, violence and racism with a razor-sharp clarity rife with anger, sorrow, and beauty. Ranging in age from childhood to young adulthood, the speakers, or witnesses, in these poems see through eyes that are simultaneously innocent and jaded, naive and urbane, unflinchingly tough and lyrically sensitive. These are unforgettable poems. Like good blues, they cut right down to the bone.
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    took a little longer than I expected but overall good quality for a used book .
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  • R. H. White
    4.0 out of 5 stars Unblinking portrait of a childhood in the Jim Crow South
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2000
    Komunyakaa, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Neon Vernacular, here writes about his childhood in a Louisiana town. The poems are poignant but unsentimental: the child's world has a certain kind of innocence but is saturated with violence, from the Klan to his father's abuse of his mother to the pragmatic violence of slaughtering a hog. One of the more exciting elements of this book is Komunyakaa's skill in combining realistic description with startling and even puzzlingly abstract language.
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