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Yusef Komunyakaa

Author of Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)	185		23	4.09	4.00	0.72
Dien Cai Dau	103	3	18	4.14	4.00	0.78
The Best American Poetry 2003	108	1	15	3.33	3.00	0.72
Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems	71		13	3.81	4.00	0.91
The Best American Essays 2001	169		13	3.73	4.00	0.42
Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry)	64		7	3.64	4.00	1.22
Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan Poetry)	47		7	3.86	4.00	0.35
Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems (Komunyakaa, Yusef. Wishbone Trilogy)	29	1	5	3.40	3.00	0.49
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)	53		5	4.30	4.50	0.68
Warhorses: Poems	30	2	3	4.17	5.00	1.18
The Chameleon Couch: Poems	14	1	2	4.50	4.50	0.50
Scandalize My Name: Selected Poems	3		1	3.00	3.00
Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan Poetry)	11		1	4.00	4.00
Ploughshares Spring 1997: Poems and Stories	1
Toys in a field	1
Lost in the bonewheel factory : poems	2
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (Wesleyan Poetry)	5
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry)	7
Copacetic (Wesleyan New Poets)	1
February in Sydney	1
A Book Called Rats (A Lynx House Book)	1
The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford (in McSweeney's 22 - EGGERS)	1

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