| Thieves of Paradise Contributor(s): Komunyakaa, Yusef (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819564222 ISBN-13: 9780819564221 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 97040294 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.05" W x 9" (0.47 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa delivers a powerful meditation on American, and particularly African American, life in the wake of Vietnam. Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music. |