Description
A powerful collection of poems that explores memory, race, desire, history, and the enduring wounds of war, bringing private experience into conversation with America’s larger cultural and moral landscape. Drawing on the textures of the rural South, urban life, music, myth, and the Vietnam War, these poems move fluidly between intimate observation and sweeping reflection. The collection is marked by vivid imagery, lyrical precision, and a jazz-like sense of rhythm and improvisation, confronting both beauty and violence without easy answers. It showcases a poet deeply attuned to the complexity of human experience and the ways the past continues to shape the present.
Available Editions
paperback
Wesleyan University Press
Published Jan 1, 1998
128 pages
ISBN: 0819563307
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa.