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Neon Vernacular (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Neon Vernacular (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R471 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.

The Blue House - Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer: Tomas Tranströmer The Blue House - Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer; Translated by Patty Crane; Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Magic City (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Magic City (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R371 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R65 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Dien Cai Dau (Paperback, 1st ed): Yusef Komunyakaa Dien Cai Dau (Paperback, 1st ed)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R368 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R66 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets.

Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth - New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth - New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R523 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R112 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize-winning poet These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past twenty years of Yusef Komunyakaa's work, as well as new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Komunyakaa's masterful, concise verse conjures arresting images of peace and war, the natural power of the earth and of love, his childhood in the American South and his service in Vietnam, the ugly violence of racism in America, and the meaning of power and morality. The new poems in this collection add a new refrain to the jazz-inflected rhythms of one of our "most significant and individual voices" (David Wojahn, Poetry). Komunyakaa writes of a young man fashioning a slingshot, workers who "honor the Earth by opening shine / inside the soil," and the sounds of a saxophone filling a dim lounge in New Jersey. As April Bernard wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "He refuses to be trivial; and he even dares beauty." Probably my favorite living poet. No one else taught me more about how important it was to think about how words make people feel. It's not enough for people to know something is true. They have to feel it's true. --Ta-Nehisi Coates, The New York Times Style Magazine

Dirty Bird Blues (Paperback): Clarence Major Dirty Bird Blues (Paperback)
Clarence Major; Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa
R388 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R72 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century It is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those to rhythm and rhyme, to the lyrics that groove a hollow in his mind. Beneath both is the awful grinding racism Manfred meets on streets each day; that which plucks opportunity from his grasp; that which keeps him wandering in search of fresh starts. And so, in want of easy answers, he turns to the 'Dirty Bird': Old Crow brand whiskey. One of Clarence Major's most influential novels, Dirty Bird Blues is both an extraordinary portrayal of twentieth-century Black reality, and an ode to the richness and power of the blues.

Meteorology (Paperback): Alpay Ulku Meteorology (Paperback)
Alpay Ulku; Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa
R301 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R50 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alpay Ulku's poems move easily over the surface of both the natural and the human landscapes, and draw from the leaping/deep image poetics of Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, and James Wright. Though triggered by contemporary events, the poems reimagine past events while simultaneously reflecting on the world of the next century.

On Centaurs & Other Poems: Zuzanna Ginczanka On Centaurs & Other Poems
Zuzanna Ginczanka; Translated by Alex Braslavsky; Preface by Yusef Komunyakaa
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Fire Within - Reflections on the Literary Imagination (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa The Fire Within - Reflections on the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa; Alexander Blackburn
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bookshop on Lafayette Street - Stories and Poems (Paperback): Doc Long, Yusef Komunyakaa The Bookshop on Lafayette Street - Stories and Poems (Paperback)
Doc Long, Yusef Komunyakaa; Edited by Eric Maywar
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Chameleon Couch - Poems (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Chameleon Couch - Poems (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R382 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As in his breakthrough work, Copacetic, Komunyakaa writes again of music as muse - from a blues club in the East Village to the shakuhachi of Basho. Beginning with 'Canticle', this varied new collection often returns to the idea of poem as hymn, ethereal and haunting, as Komunyakaa reveals glimpses of memory, myth, and violence.

Warhorses (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Warhorses (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R355 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R61 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in "Taboo "or "Talking Dirty to the Gods," and in long poems like "Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted but

desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines "the old masters of Shock & Awe" daydreaming of "lovely Penelope / like a trophy." "Warhorses "is the stunning work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.

Taboo - The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Taboo - The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R386 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In "Taboo" he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas, Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra Behn writes "Oroonoko" "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his neo-classical desk/musing, but we know his mind/is brushing aside abstractions/so his hands can touch flesh." "Taboo" is the powerful first book in a new trilogy by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.

Collected Poems (Paperback): Lynda Hull Collected Poems (Paperback)
Lynda Hull; Edited by Mark Doty; Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa
R518 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R78 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty)
"If each of us
contains, within, humankind's totality, each possibility
then I have been so fractured, so multiple & dazzling . . .
"--from "The Window"
Lynda Hull's "Collected Poems "brings together her three collections--long unavailable--with a new introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, and allows, for the first time, the full scale of her achievement to be seen. Edited with Hull's husband, David Wojahn, this book contains all the poems Hull published in her lifetime, before her untimely death in 1994.
"Collected Poems "is the first book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, which brings essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print. Each volume--chosen by series editor Mark Doty--is introduced by a poet who brings to the work a passionate admiration. The Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series brings all-but-lost masterworks of recent American poetry into the hands of a new generation of readers.

Pleasure Dome (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Pleasure Dome (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R758 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R118 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.

Talking Dirty to the Gods (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa Talking Dirty to the Gods (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa
R386 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

. . . A god isn't worth
A drop of water in the hell of his good

Imagination, if we can't curse
Sunsets & threaten to forsake him
In his storehouse of belladonna,
Tiger hornets, & snakebites.
--from "Meditations in a Swine Yard"

No turn in any life cycle is taboo as Yusef Komunyakaa examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings, and deities in Talking Dirty to the Gods. From "Hearsay" to "Heresy," these 132 poems, each consisting of four quatrains, are framed by innuendo and lively satire. Komunyakaa looks to nature and configures his own paradigm, in which an event as commonplace as the jewel wasp laying an egg in a cockroach becomes every bit as grand as Zeus's infidelity. The formally rigorous collection is itself a design for a systematic cosmos, a world compressed but abundant in surprise and delight.

The Second Set - The Jazz Poetry Anthology (Paperback): Sascha Feinstein The Second Set - The Jazz Poetry Anthology (Paperback)
Sascha Feinstein; Edited by Yusef Komunyakaa
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omitted from The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane di Prima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, Eugene B. Redmond, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Ntozake Shange, A. B. Spellman, and Jay Wright. The Second Set fills out the history of jazz poetry with poems written before World War II, as well as those from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, and includes contemporary writers from a range of cultural backgrounds, including Ai, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael Longley, Mwatabu Okantah, Charles Simic, Lorenzo Thomas, Derek Walcott, Ron Welburn, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Embracing a wide variety of poems informed by jazz, The Second Set also includes statements of poetics by many of the poets anthologized."

The Jazz Poetry Anthology (Paperback): Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa The Jazz Poetry Anthology (Paperback)
Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa
R659 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

..". in a class by itself... sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery... the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." Jazziz Magazine

"In the course of the history of jazz, there have been only a few articles that get to the core of the meaning of jazz. These poems hit it right on the head, and the book is certainly essential for anyone who is interested in our music." Dizzy Gillespie

"To those interested in the impact of jazz upon the poetry of our century I recommend this anthology altogether without reservation." John Lucas, JazzTimes

..". essential... Its virtues are varied and copious, and not the least among them is discovering a writer whose work is new to you." Los Angeles Reader

"What makes this work most enjoyable is knowing the music and musicians and using that knowledge to understand and judge the poets reactions to the elements in the music that please and inspire us." MultiCultural Review

"Filled with a variety of form, rhythm, and sound, this anthology is an absolute MUST for anyone who is even remotely interested in jazz and modern literature." David Baker

Since the turn of the century, poets have responded to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones. The poems here cover the range of jazz itself: from early blues to free jazz and experimental music. Among the 132 poets included are James Baldwin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Mina Loy, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. This anthology represents the broad appreciation for jazz as poetic inspiration, not only from the Beat movement but from writers across the decades and around the world."

The Silence of Men (Paperback): Yusef Komunyakaa The Silence of Men (Paperback)
Yusef Komunyakaa; Richard Newman
R474 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R45 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Silence of Men confronts and breaks the silence in men's lives surrounding sex, family, power and violence; graphic and intimate, celebratory and heartbreakingly painful, these are the poems of a survivor for whom writing, because it breaks that silence, has been a primary means of survival.

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