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Thieves of Paradise
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Yusef Komunyakaa
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1998
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Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef Komunyakaas poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music.

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title Thieves of Paradise Wesleyan Poetry author Komunyakaa - photo 1

title	:	Thieves of Paradise Wesleyan Poetry
author	:	Komunyakaa, Yusef.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0819564222
print isbn13	:	9780819564221
ebook isbn13	:	9780585371269
language	:	English
subject	American poetry.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	PS3561.O455T45 1998eb
ddc	:	811/.54
subject	:	American poetry.

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Thieves of Paradise

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WESLEYAN POETRY

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)

Magic City (1992)

Neon Vernacular (1993)

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Thieves of Paradise

Yusef Komunyakaa

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FOR MANDY, AGAIN

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755

1998 by Yusef Komunyakaa

Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2

CIP data appear at the end of the book

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications, in which these poems originally appeared: African-American Review, Agni, The American Poetry Review, Art/Life, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Boulevard, Brilliant Corners, Caliban, Callaloo, Common Knowledge, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Field, Fish Stories, The Flying Island, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Heartland Today, The Hopewell Review, The Illinois Review, The Iowa Review, Many Mountains Moving, The Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Occident, The Pacific Review, The Paris Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Phoebe, Prosodia, River Styx, Shankpainter, The Southern California Anthology, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, VOLT.

"Testimony" was first aired by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, with music composed by Sandy Evans and directed by Chris Williams.

"Ia Drang Valley" first appeared in The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry, University of Arkansas, 1987.

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CONTENTS

WAY STATIONS

Memory Cave

Out There There Be Dragons

The Song Thief

Wet Nurse

Ode to a Drum

Eclogue at Daybreak

Genealogy

Kosmos

Confluence

Palimpsest

Mumble Peg

Ia Drang Valley

Cenotaph

The Trapper's Bride

Eclogue at Twilight

TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

The Tally

Heroes of Waterloo

Wokanmagulli

Waratah

New Gold Mountain

White Lady

Meditations on a Dingo

Report from The Lucky Country

In the Mirror

The Piccolo

John Says

Corners of Night

Messages

Visitation

Bennelong's Blues

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