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Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947, Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of numerous books of poems, including Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award...
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From Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa, published by Wesleyan University Press. © 1988 by Yusef Komunyakaa. Used with permission. All rights reserved.


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May 05, 1993
French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise
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