Displaying 1 of 1 1992 Format: Book Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef. Title: Magic city / Komunyakaa Yusef. Publisher, Date: [Middletown, Connecticut] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover, New Hampshire : Published by University Press of New England, [1992] ©1992 Description: vi, 59 pages ; 23 cm Notes: 523188 ; *523189 LCCN: 92053863 ISBN: 0819522058 Other Number: 25706891 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 2 # Local items in: 2 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews CHOICE Review^D" Komunyakaa insists, though these poems that chronicle one narrator's burgeoning consciousness in the rural South of the late 1950s and early '60s depict a lush, sensual landscape inhabited by characters grown mythic in memory. ^D" the narrator recalls as he shapes this bildungsroman toward an understanding of his heritage, his own becoming: ^D" But the snakes here in ^D" are both real and metaphorical, and the remembered beauty and stirring sexuality are undercut again and again by racial violence: ^D" Komunyakaa's sleek narratives gather strength from their authoritative language and precise knowledge: ^D" Highly recommended. M. Waters Salisbury State University Summary An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana. Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
