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UNINA9910787558103321 |
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Komunyakaa Yusef |
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Titolo |
Neon Vernacular [[electronic resource] ] : New and Selected Poems |
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Middletown, : Wesleyan University Press, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Collana |
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English poetry |
Poems |
Poetry |
American Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Neon Vernacular; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 |
PassionsThe Dog Act; For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors; 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 HeadUnnatural State of the Unicorn; |
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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 Rome-Apologia; The Thorn Merchant's Wife; The Thorn Merchant's Mistress; After Summer Fell Apart; 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 SilenceFor 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; Tunnels; Starlight Scope Myopia; Hanoi Hannah; ""You and I Are Disappearing""; Re-creating the Scene; We Never Know; A Break from the Bush; Tu Do Street; Communiqué; Prisoners; Jungle Surrender; Thanks; To Have Danced with Death; Report from the Skull's Diorama; Boat People; Missing in Action; Facing It; from February in Sydney; The Plea |
The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For WallyRocks Push; When Loneliness Is A Man; A Quality of Light; Gerry's Jazz; Boxing Day; Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage; Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel; February in Sydney |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam. |
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