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Condition red : essays, interviews, and commentaries /
"Condition Red collects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Poets on poetry.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Essays
- Red
- Erasure
- An ode to raccoon
- Sorrow songs and flying away: Religious influence on black poetry
- A needful thing
- Crossroads
- A supreme signifier: Etheridge Knight
- The devil's secretary
- The blue machinery of summer
- The blood work of language
- Son of pop: Floyd D. Tunson's neo-blues
- Conundrum
- Clarence Major's cosmopolitan vision
- Dark waters
- The method of Ai
- Collaboration and the wishbone
- Three shades of past
- Excursions
- Getting a shape
- The Wolf/ Interview
- Celebration and confrontation: Walt Whitman
- III. Commentaries
- Notes from a lost notebook
- You made me
- More than a state of mind
- Eros, words
- A letter to Poetry
- Small illuminations
- How poetry helps people to live their lives
- Picking a lock to the mind-jail in the city of Asylum
- A note from The Best American Erotic poems
- The mission of American poets and writers visiting the 2008 Kolkata Book Fair
- Rewriting Dante.