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Yusef Komunyakaa - Magic city

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Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a childs dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescents awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poets awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.

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title Magic City author Komunyakaa Yusef publisher - photo 1

title:Magic City
author:Komunyakaa, Yusef.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819512087
print isbn13:9780819512086
ebook isbn13:9780585370934
language:English
subjectAmerican poetry.
publication date:1992
lcc:PS3561.O455M34 1992eb
ddc:811/.54
subject:American poetry.
Page i
Magic City
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Also by Yusef Komunyakaa
Dedications & Other Darkhorses (1977)
Lost in the Bonewheel Factory (1979)
Copacetic (1984)
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986)
Toys in a Field (1986)
Dien Cai Dau (1988)
February in Sydney (1989)
Neon Vernacular (1993)
Thieves of Paradise (1998)
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Magic City
Yusef Komunyakaa
Page iv Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New - photo 2
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Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
1992 by Yusef Komunyakaa
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4
CIP data appear at the end of the book
Acknowledgments appear on page 59.
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Contents
Venus's-flytraps
1
The Whistle
3
Playthings
6
Yellow Dog Caf
10
Happiness
12
Seasons between Yes & No
14
Glory
15
April's Anarchy
16
The Millpond
17
Immolatus
19
Banking Potatoes
20
The Smokehouse
21
The Steel Plate
22
Sunday Afternoons
24
Looking for Choctaw
25
Fleshing-out the Season
26
Blackberries
27
Yellowjackets
28
Gristmill
29
History Lessons
30
Temples of Smoke
32
Boys in Dresses
33
Nude Tango
35
Touch
36

Page vi
Sugar
37
Albino
38
Halloween, the Late Fifties
40
Mismatched Shoes
42
My Father's Love Letters
43
The Cooling Board
44
Omen
45
Believing in Iron
46
Salom
47
Between Angels & Monsters
48
Poetics of Paperwood
50
Slam, Dunk, & Hook
51
Sex, Magnolias, & Speed
53
Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense
54
Nocturne
55
Butterfly-Toed Shoes
56
Acknowledgments
59

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