Dedications and Other Darkhorses

Name: Dedications and Other Darkhorses
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

by Yusef Komunyakaa

Early collection of jazz-inflected poems about love, dedication, and survival

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Yusef Komunyakaa

American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Neon Vernacular in 1994. His verse about Vietnam, jazz, and the African American South is dense with music and history.

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