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title:Neon Vernacular : New and Selected Poems
author:Komunyakaa, Yusef.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819512117
print isbn13:9780819512116
ebook isbn13:9780585381718
language:English
subjectAmerican poetry.
publication date:1993
lcc:PS3561.O455N46 1993eb
ddc:811/.54
subject:American poetry.

Page i

Neon Vernacular

Page ii

YUSEF
KOMUNYAKAA

Neon vernacular new and selected poems - image 2

Page iii

Neon
Vernacular

NEW AND
SELECTED POEMS

Page iv Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England - photo 3

Page iv

Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of
New England, Hanover, NH 03755
Copyright 1993 by Yusef Komunyakaa
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7
CIP data appear at the end of the book

The "New Poems" appeared in the following
magazines: Callaloo, Indiana Arts, The Iowa Review,
The Kenyon Review, The Louisville Review,
Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Red Dirt,
River Styx
, and The Southern Review.

Dedications & Other Darkhorses, Rocky Mountain
Creative Arts Journal, 1977; included by
permission. Lost in the Bonewheel Factory,
Lynx House Press, 1979; included by permission.
Copacetic, Wesleyan University Press, 1984;
included by permission. Toys in a Field,
Black River Press, 1986; included by permission.
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Wesleyan
University Press, 1986; included by
permission. Dien Cai Dau, Wesleyan University
Press, 1988; included by permission.
February in Sydney, Matchbooks, 1989;
included by permission.

Page v

In memory of my grandmother, Mary,
and my father, J.W.

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Contents

New Poems

Fog Galleon

At the Screen Door

Moonshine

Salt

Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen

Work

Praising Dark Places

A Good Memory

Birds on a Powerline

Fever

Little Man Around the House

Songs for My Father

from Dedications & Other Darkhorses

The Tongue Is

Chair Gallows

Translating Footsteps

from Lost in the Bonewheel Factory

Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes

1938

Stepfather: A Girl's Song

Apprenticeship

Light on the Subject

Beg Song

Passions

The Dog Act

For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors

Page viii

The Nazi Doll

Corrigenda

from Copacetic

False Leads

Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror

The Way the Cards Fall

Annabelle

Faith Healer

More Girl Than Boy

April Fools' Day

Untitled Blues

Back Then

Blasphemy

Safe Subjects

Black String of Days

Villon / Leadbelly

Elegy for Thelonious

Copacetic Mingus

Letter to Bob Kaufman

Woman, I Got the Blues

Newport Beach, 1979

Gloria's Clues

Charmed

The Cage Walker

Addendum

Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival

from I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head

Unnatural State of the Unicorn

Touch-up Man

How I See Things

The Thorn Merchant

The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man

The Heart's Graveyard Shift

Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes

The Music That Hurts

When in RomeApologia

The Thorn Merchant's Wife

The Thorn Merchant's Mistress

After Summer Fell Apart

Page ix

The Brain to the Heart

Audacity of the Lower Gods

The Falling-Down Song

The Thorn Merchant's Son

I Apologize

1984

Dreambook Bestiary

Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga's Dream

Landscape for the Disappeared

Good Joe

In the Background of Silence

For the Walking Dead

Child's Play

The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations

from Toys in a Field

Ambush

Monsoon Season

Water Buffalo

Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring

Please

from Dien Cai Dau

Camouflaging the Chimera

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