Pleasure Dome : New and Collected Poems / Yusef Komunyakaa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Komunyakaa, Yusef.

Series:

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.

Contents:

Cover; Pleasure Dome; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; New Poems; Providence; Water; Jasmine; The Whispering Gallery; Tuesday Night at the Savoy Ballroom; Doppelgängers; Somewhere; Never Land; Pepper; South Carolina Morning; Rendezvous; Once the Dream Begins; Ogoni; Keeper of the Vigil; Nightbird; Tenebrae; Double Limbo; NJ Transit; Early Uncollected; Mississippi John Hurt; Langston Hughes; Blue Tonality; De Síntoma Profundo; Lover; Reminiscence; Waiting for a Tree Through a Window; The Lamp Carrier; The Life & Times of Billy Boy; A House of Snow; Recital of Water Over Stones

The Dog's TheologyThey Say in Yellow Jacket; When Men Can't Trust Hands with Wood; Birthday Song; Legacy; Eye Witness; Unnatural Deaths; A Different Story; One-Breath Song; Frontal Lobe Postscript; Sagittarius Approaching Thirty-Five; Cubism; Insinuations; Loneliness; Dedications & Other Darkhorses; Returning the Borrowed Road; Chair Gallows; Allegorical Seduction; Under House Arrest; Translating Footsteps; Urban Renewal; Magpies; The Tongue Is; Ten Speeds; (E)Motion; Observatory; Lost in the Bonewheel Factory; Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes; Floor Plans; Tour Guide

Sitting in a Rocking Chair, Going BlindPushing in All the Buttons; Confessing My Ignorance; 1938; S & M; Stepfather: A Girl's Song; Stepmother: A Boy's Song; No Love in This House; High on Sadness; Sunbather; Apprenticeship; Light on the Subject; Punchdrunk; Vigilante; Nothing to Do with Janice Drake; Reconstructing a Crime; Two; Beg Song; Death Threat Note; Child Stealer; A Poet Whose Photo Never Grows Old; Poetics; Imagination; Ghost Chant, et alii; Passions; The Dog Act; For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors; Feet Nailed to the Floor; The Nazi Doll; Breaking Camp; Corrigenda

CopaceticFalse Leads; Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror; The Way the Cards Fall; Reflections; Annabelle; Faith Healer; More Girl Than Boy; April Fools' Day; Untitled Blues; Jumping Bad Blues; Initials on Aspens; Family Tree; Instructions for Building Straw Huts; An Exchange Student Awaits the Arrival of an African Princess; Back Then; Blasphemy; Lost Wax; Safe Subjects; Black String of Days; Eleemosynary; Speaking of Luck; Villon/Leadbelly; Borinken Blues; Let's Say; Elegy for Thelonious; Copacetic Mingus; Letter to Bob Kaufman; Woman, I Got the Blues; Street Cool Clara; Newport Beach, 1979

Gloria's CluesCharmed; Captain Diable's Receptionist; The Cage Walker; Addendum; Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival; By Proxy; 1931; The Leper's Bell; Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival; Toys in a Field; Nothing Big; Ambush; Water Buffalo; Monsoon Season; Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring; Toys in a Field; Please; Returning (1975); I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head; Unnatural State of the Unicorn; Lightshow; Sorrow; Touch-up Man; How I See Things; Insufficient Blue; The Thorn Merchant; The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man; After the Heart's Interrogation; Happy-Go-Lucky's Wolf Skull Dream Mask

The Heart's Graveyard Shift

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780819574725

0819574724

OCLC:

869281841