Description
This award-winning poetry collection explores the body, memory, identity, and the complicated inheritances of race, history, and American life. Drawing on the blues and jazz, Yusef Komunyakaa’s vivid, syncopated poems move between intimate self-examination, Black experience, Southern landscapes, urban realities, and the shadow of war. His language is both plainspoken and richly musical, finding beauty, pain, resilience, and spiritual unease in the physical world. Together, these poems establish a distinctive voice of remarkable emotional and moral depth.
Available Editions
paperback
Wesleyan University Press
Published Jan 1, 1986
73 pages
ISBN: 0819551449
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Details
First Published
1986
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head by Yusef Komunyakaa.