Description
A powerful new and selected collection, these poems draw on the landscapes and cadences of the American South, the lived realities of Black life, the turbulence of the Civil Rights era, and the psychological aftermath of the Vietnam War. Moving between childhood memory, love, loss, friendship, urban experience, and the battlefield, the work explores how history leaves its mark on both private lives and collective memory. Jazz and blues rhythms animate Komunyakaa’s precise, vernacular language, giving the poems a syncopated musicality and a vivid, luminous intensity. Together, they reveal a poetic vision at once deeply personal, historically alert, and unflinching in its attention to resilience, violence, desire, and remembrance.
Available Editions
paperback
Wesleyan University Press
Published Jan 1, 1993
178 pages
ISBN: 0819522082
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Details
First Published
1993
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa.