Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America’s most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others—over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa’s work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.
Table of Content
New Poems
Early Uncollected
Dedications and Other Darkhorses
Lost in the Bonewheel Factory
Copacetic
Toys in a Field
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
Dien Cai Dau
February in Sydney
Magic City
Neon Vernacular
Thieves of Paradise
Index of titles and first lines
About the author
Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor and senior distinguished poet in the graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of twenty collections of poetry, including Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular and Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, With New and Selected Jazz Poetry. Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for Neon Vernacular.
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