Yusef Komunyakaa
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Award-winning poet and lecturer Yusef Komunyakaa is well-known for his personal poetry concerning race, the Vietnam War, jazz, and the blues.
His numerous collections of poetry include Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems 1975-1999, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Thieves of Paradise, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Magic City, Dien Cai Dau, which won The Dark The collection of Komunyakaa's writings known as Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries.
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