A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It"

A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published:

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 1410345580

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A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


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Download or read book A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It"

A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's

Author: Cengage Learning Gale

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781375379755

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A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


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Download or read book A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It" written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera"

A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1410342344

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A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


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Download or read book A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Ode to a Drum"

A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

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Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 1410354253

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A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Ode to a Drum," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


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Download or read book A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Ode to a Drum" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Yusef Komunyakaa's "Ode to a Drum," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.


Neon Vernacular

Neon Vernacular

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1993-04-30

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0819574538

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This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection pairs twelve new poems with work from seven previous volumes by “one of the most extraordinary poets writing today” (Kenyon Review). The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa traverses psychological and physical landscapes, mining personal memory to understand the historical and social contexts that shape experience. Neon Vernacular charts the development of his characteristic themes and concerns by gathering work from seven of his previous collections, along with a dozen new poems that continue the autobiographical trajectory of his previous collection, Magic City. Here, Komunyakaa shares an intimate and evocative life journey, from his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana—once a center of Klan activity and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts—to his stormy relationship with his father, his high school football days, and his experience of the Vietnam War and his difficult return home. Many of the poems collected here are drawn from limited editions and are no longer available.


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Download or read book Neon Vernacular written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection pairs twelve new poems with work from seven previous volumes by “one of the most extraordinary poets writing today” (Kenyon Review). The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa traverses psychological and physical landscapes, mining personal memory to understand the historical and social contexts that shape experience. Neon Vernacular charts the development of his characteristic themes and concerns by gathering work from seven of his previous collections, along with a dozen new poems that continue the autobiographical trajectory of his previous collection, Magic City. Here, Komunyakaa shares an intimate and evocative life journey, from his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana—once a center of Klan activity and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts—to his stormy relationship with his father, his high school football days, and his experience of the Vietnam War and his difficult return home. Many of the poems collected here are drawn from limited editions and are no longer available.


Dien Cai Dau

Dien Cai Dau

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1988-09-01

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 0819573787

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This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist


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Download or read book Dien Cai Dau written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist


Pleasure Dome

Pleasure Dome

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2004-09-20

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0819567396

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Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.


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Download or read book Pleasure Dome written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.


Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0819568252

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The first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh


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Download or read book Gilgamesh written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh


Magic City

Magic City

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1992-10-09

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780819512086

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An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.


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Download or read book Magic City written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.


Dirty Bird Blues

Dirty Bird Blues

Author: Clarence Major

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0525508090

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A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham. A Penguin Classic Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in "Dirty Bird" (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He moves to Omaha with hopes of better opportunities as a blue-collar worker, but the blues in his soul and the dreams in his mind keep bringing him back to face himself. After a nightmarish descent into his own depths, Manfred emerges with fresh awareness and possibility. Through Manfred, we witness and experience the process by which modern American English has been vitalized and strengthened by the poetry and the poignancy of the African-American experience. As Manfred struggles with the oppressive constraints of society and his private turmoil, his rich inner voice resonates with the blues.


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Download or read book Dirty Bird Blues written by Clarence Major and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham. A Penguin Classic Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in "Dirty Bird" (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He moves to Omaha with hopes of better opportunities as a blue-collar worker, but the blues in his soul and the dreams in his mind keep bringing him back to face himself. After a nightmarish descent into his own depths, Manfred emerges with fresh awareness and possibility. Through Manfred, we witness and experience the process by which modern American English has been vitalized and strengthened by the poetry and the poignancy of the African-American experience. As Manfred struggles with the oppressive constraints of society and his private turmoil, his rich inner voice resonates with the blues.