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Yusef Komunyakaa

Author of Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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Yusef Komunyakka's eleven books of poems include Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021… (more)
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Works by Yusef Komunyakaa
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 326 copies, 1 review
Dien Cai Dau 193 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2003 (Editor) 169 copies, 1 review
Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems 114 copies, 1 review
Magic City 112 copies, 3 reviews
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) 104 copies
Thieves of Paradise 89 copies
The Chameleon Couch: Poems 67 copies, 2 reviews
Warhorses: Poems 56 copies, 2 reviews
Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems (Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1) 48 copies, 2 reviews
The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems 43 copies, 1 review
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 26 copies, 2 reviews
Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 21 copies
Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker: With New and Selected Jazz Poems… 12 copies
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) 10 copies
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Also by Yusef Komunyakaa
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Contributor) 1,234 copies, 19 reviews
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Contributor) 1,214 copies, 9 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 897 copies, 7 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 728 copies, 3 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (Contributor) 331 copies, 4 reviews
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Contributor) 324 copies, 2 reviews
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 323 copies, 4 reviews
The Portable Sixties Reader (Contributor) 317 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays 2001 (Contributor) 232 copies
The Best American Poetry 2001 (Contributor) 218 copies
The Best American Poetry 2000 (Contributor) 211 copies
The Best American Poetry 1999 (Contributor) 208 copies
The Best American Poetry 2004 (Contributor) 197 copies
The Art of Losing (Cover artist) 190 copies, 20 reviews
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the… (Contributor) 170 copies
The Best American Poetry 1996 (Contributor) 168 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 1997 (Contributor) 165 copies
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Contributor) 158 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1995 (Contributor) 156 copies, 1 review
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (Contributor) 139 copies
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (Contributor) 105 copies
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (Contributor) 96 copies
The Best American Poetry 2016 (Contributor) 95 copies, 4 reviews
The 100 Best African American Poems (Contributor) 93 copies, 5 reviews
The Jazz Poetry Anthology (Editor) 92 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 2017 (Contributor) 88 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 2011 (Contributor) 84 copies, 4 reviews
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans… (Contributor) 82 copies
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (Contributor) 81 copies, 1 review
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 2014 (Contributor) 73 copies
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series (Contributor) 71 copies, 2 reviews
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (Author) 66 copies, 1 review
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (Contributor) 62 copies, 1 review
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (Contributor) 53 copies
Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Contributor) 51 copies, 3 reviews
Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review
The Ecopoetry Anthology (Contributor) 44 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 2021 (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American… (Contributor) 41 copies
The Best American Poetry 2020 (Contributor) 39 copies, 1 review
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Contributor) 32 copies
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (Contributor) 30 copies, 1 review
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets… (Contributor) 25 copies
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash… (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review
Second Set (The Jazz Poetry Anthology , Vol 2) (Editor) 14 copies
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (Contributor) 9 copies
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (Contributor) 8 copies
The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) (Contributor) 6 copies
Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (Contributor) 3 copies
Hambone, No. 3 (Contributor) 1 copy
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Brown, James William
Date of birth
1947-04-29
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male
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USA
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Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA
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Places of residence
Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Education
University of Colorado, Colorado (BA)
Colorado State University (MA)
University of California, Irvine (MFA ∙ Creative Writing)
Occupations
poet
professor
Relationships
Sayer, Mandy (ex-wife)
Vazirani, Reetika (partner, deceased)
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Organizations
Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
Indiana University
Awards and honors
Louisiana Writer Award (2007)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2001)
Bronze Star
Wallace Stevens Award (2011)
Hanes Award for Poetry (1997)
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