Description
This early poetry collection draws on the rhythms of jazz, blues, and colloquial speech to explore Black life in the American South and the enduring impact of racism. Rooted in Louisiana and attentive to music as both cultural memory and social commentary, the poems move through history, identity, grief, and communal resilience. Vivid tributes to jazz figures and meditations on racial injustice give the collection its emotional and musical force. Yet beneath its charged subject matter lies a sustaining sense of contentment and hope—the hard-won affirmation of a people who have endured and persevered.
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paperback
Wesleyan University Press
Published Jan 1, 1984
58 pages
ISBN: 0819521167
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Copacetic by Yusef Komunyakaa.