Magic City (Signed Copy)

Komunyakaa, Yusef

ISBN 10: 0819512087 / ISBN 13: 9780819512086

Published by Wesleyan, 1992

About this Item

A copy both signed and inscribed by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa of this collection of poems related to African American Louisiana in the mid 20th century. Signed and additionally inscribed by Yusef Komunyakaa on the title page. 57 pages, second printing. Appears to have no sign of previous use, but there is a previous owner's embossed stamp on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 008744

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Magic City (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Wesleyan
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819512087
• ISBN 13: 9780819512086
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 child's 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 adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.

About the Author

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the creative writing department at New York University. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and many other awards for poetic achievement, including the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 2004 Shelley Memorial Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Levinson Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.