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Pleasure Dome (Wesleyan Poetry)

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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.

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Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.
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ISBN:
9780819564252
Author:
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Publisher:
Wesleyan Publishing House
Location:
Middletown, Conn.
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
American poetry
Subject:
Poetry
Series:
Wesleyan Poetry
Series Volume:
[10]
Publication Date:
January 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
468
Dimensions:
8.74x5.85x1.28 in. 1.50 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.
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