Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa by Shirley A James Hanshaw

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Brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa describes his work alternately as “word paintings” and as “music”, and his affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations. The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude of Komunyakaa's literary output.

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Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa by Shirley A James Hanshaw

Brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa describes his work alternately as word paintings and as music, and his affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations. The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude of Komunyakaa's literary output.
Shirley A. James Hanshaw is assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. Her work has been published in Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Other Arts, as well as The Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Studies and Journal of the African Literature Association.
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ISBN 13 9781604734225
ISBN 10 1604734221
Title Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa
Author Shirley A James Hanshaw
Series Literary Conversations Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Year published 2010-03-30
Number of pages 224
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