Dear Yusef (eBook)

Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa

John Murillo, Nicole Sealey (Herausgeber)

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2024
322 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
9780819501356 (ISBN)

Infos

This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet Yusef Komunyakaa has had on poets, educators, and readers worldwide. The anthology brings together creative and critical offerings from fellow poets, former students, literary entities, and other admirers. There are emerging and established voices-from previously unpublished writers to Pulitzer Prize winning poets. Together these pieces honor one of the most influential writers of the last half century, one, it turns out, who is as beloved for his teaching as he is celebrated for his creative work. Contributors include Terrance Hayes, Sharon Olds, Carolyn Forche, Toi Derricotte, and Martin Espada, among others. Dear Yusef affirms Komunyakaa's transformative influence, showcasing how his mentoring has ignited creativity, nurtured passion, and fostered a sense of belonging among countless individuals. Through the artistry of these testimonials, we witness the transformative power of poetry and the enduring legacy of a true literary icon.Please note that the hardcover edition is unjacketed.

Autor

JOHN MURILLO is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. Among his honors are the 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the TS Eliot Foundation, and the Poetry Society of Virginia's North American Book Award. Currently, he serves as associate professor of English at Wesleyan University. NICOLE SEALEY is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (2023), an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, Ordinary Beast (2017), finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named (2016), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She was the Executive Director at Cave Canem from 2017–2019. She teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.

Inhalt

Introduction • What Counts: Letters and Personal Essays • Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Dear Yusef" • Emily Brandt: "Refuge" • Carolyn Forché: "A Journey to Kolkata with Yusef Komunyakaa, January 2008" • Brian Gilmore: "Chasing Yusef (for Kenny May)" • Jennifer Grotz: "The Forty-Fourth Poem" • Terrance Hayes: "Everyday Mojo Letters to Yusef Komunyakaa" • Adrian Matejka: "Off the Rim" • Kenneth May: "Dice in a Hard Time Hustle: Yusef Komunyakaa & Etheridge Knight: 1988-1991" • JD Scrimgeour: "Bloomington" • Nicole Sealey: Office Hours • Emily Yoon: "Dear Yusef' • Insufficient Blue: Poems For Yusef • Doug Anderson: "Colonial Album" • C Scott Bailey: "What Walking Brings" • Margo Berdeshevsky (w/ image): "Dear Yusef" • Nicole Cooley: "Yusef's Lessons" • Curtis Crisler: "Superheroes Born by a Black Nerd" • Joel Dias-Porter: "Seven Songs of the Sparrow" • Martín Espada: "Not Words But Hands" • Linda Susan Jackson: "Komunyakaa at the International Center for Photography, June 11, 2007" • Major Jackson: "Reading Yusef" • Jennifer Jean: "Copacetic Judy" • Jaqueline Johnson: "Laugh" • Zach Kluckman: "Why I Keep Coming Back to It" • Matthew Lippman: "Because Wouldn't It Be Cool if He Were the Father of the World" • Sebastian Matthews: "Dear Yusef, Dear Komunyakaa" • Philip Metres: "Hieroglyphs for Komunyakaa" • Dante Micheaux: "The Conjurer's Apprentice" • Jonathan Moody: "Soul's Edge" • John Murillo: "Dear Yusef," • Sharon Olds: "Y is for Y U S E F K O M U N Y A K A A" • Jennifer Richter: "Cento for Yusef, Whose Words Led Me to Mine" • Lynne Thompson: "3/4 Jazz" • Charlie Veric: "A Poet is Addressing My Loneliness" • Shari Wagner: "William's Shoes" • The Work of Orpheus: Critical Essays and Other Considerations • Tyree Daye: "Notes" • Toi Derricotte: "Beauty, Victory and Survival in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa" • Myronn Hardy: "The Calamity of Unknowing" • Melissa Johnson: "Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau: Vietnam as Femme Fatale" • Anne Marie Macari: "The Poet as Shape Shifter: Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Ode to the Chameleon'" • Jeffrey McDaniel: "Thank You for the Eyes in Your Head" • Gregory Pardlo: "Dear Yusef Komunyakaa: On Neon Vernacular and the Half-Life of Double Consciousness" • Ed Pavlic: "'Modern Man in the Pepperpot': The Black Musical Substructure of Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetic Thought" • Hannah Saltmarsh: "Yusef Komunyakaa's Scenes of Vietnam and Louisiana: The Forever Crisis of Racial Terror in Dien Cai Dau (1988)" • Artress Bethany White: "'Facing It': Of Soldiers, Patriotism, and Literary Resistance" • Translating Footsteps: Poems After Komunyakaa • Dan Albergotti: "Shovel to the Maggot" • Paula Bohince: "Rattlesnake" • Lucia Orellana Damacela: "En el trayecto de Da Nang a Hoi An" • Carrie Etter: "Facing It" • Kathy Fagan: "October" • Yolanda J. Franklin: "a Cento for Langston's Blues" • Eugene Gloria: "To Idleness, an Ode" • Derrick Harriel: "Headless" • Didi Jackson: "Summer Ends with a Line by Yusef Komunyakaa" • Valerie Jean: "After Reading 'Anodyne' by Yusef Komunyakaa" • Meghan Kemp-Gee: "Crossing a city highway at 3 a.m. in the Coyote Head Nebula, IRAS 15541-5349" • Wallace Lane: "At the Vietnam Memorial Wall Circa 2018" • Yesenia Montilla: "What Does an Immigrant's Daughter Know of War" • Malik Noël-Ferdinand: "Ode to the Flute" • Deborah Paredez: "Self Portrait in Flesh and Stone" • Peggy Robles-Alvarado: "Love Letters for Tio Manolo" • Derrick Weston-Brown: "Half-Mast Days" • L. Lamar Wilson: "On Passing, or How to Stare at a Kardashian's Bum Without Blinking" • Matthew Wimberley: "Ode to a Thread of Spider-Silk Between a Dead and Living Tree" • Contributors • Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2024
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 1994, African American poet, Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, born 1947, Vietnam War veteran, Bronze Star recipient, Professor at New York University, Race and identity, Jazz and blues influences, Historical and social commentary, Sensory-rich imagery, Colloquial and vernacular language, Neon Vernacular (1994), Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Talking Dirty to the Gods (1997), Dien Cai Dau (1988), Vietnam War poetry, Thieves of Paradise (1993), Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems
• ISBN-13: 9780819501356 / 9780819501356