Description
In this powerful collection, the poet revisits his childhood in 1950s Bogalusa, Louisiana, bringing the charged landscape of the Jim Crow South into vivid focus. These autobiographical poems explore family, race, violence, labor, memory, and the complicated bonds between fathers and sons, refusing easy consolation or simplified versions of history. With unflinching witness and richly sensory imagery, the collection transforms personal experience into an enduring meditation on the contradictions of American life and the making of a poet.
Available Editions
paperback
Wesleyan University Press
Published Jan 1, 1992
59 pages
ISBN: 0819522058
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Details
First Published
1992
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa.