Yusef Komunyakaa

Komunyakaa at the 2011 [[National Book Critics Circle Awards]] in March 2012; his book ''The Chameleon Couch'' was nominated for the poetry award. Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for ''Neon Vernacular'' and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Komunyakaa received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his contribution to poetry.

His subject matter ranges from the black experience through rural Southern life before the Civil Rights era and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Lost in the bonewheel factory : poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    [Place of publication not identified] : Lynx House Press, 1979
    Format: Book


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    Taboo by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004
    1st ed.
    Format: Book


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    Neon vernacular new and selected poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    [Middletown, Conn.] : Hanover [N.H.] : Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England, 1993
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    Gilgamesh : a verse play by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2006
    Format: Book

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    The chameleon couch : poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    The emperor of water clocks : poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Neon vernacular : new and selected poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    [Middletown, Conn.] : Hanover [N.H.] : Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England, 1993
    Format: Book


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    Copacetic by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1984
    First edition, first Wesleyan paperback edition.
    Format: Book


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    Warhorses : poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
    1st ed.
    Format: Book


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    Thieves of paradise by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    [Middletown, Conn.] : Hanover : Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England, 1998
    Format: Book


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    Blue notes : essays, interviews, and commentaries by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000
    Format: Book


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    Dien Cai Dau by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1988
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Pleasure dome : new and collected poems by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2001
    Format: Book


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    Dien Cai Dau by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1988
    1st ed.
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    Magic city by Komunyakaa, Yusef

    [Middletown, Conn.] : Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, 1992
    Format: Book


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    The second set : the jazz poetry anthology, volume 2

    Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996
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    Format: Book