YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the creative writing department at New York University. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and many other awards for poetic achievement, including the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 2004 Shelley Memorial Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Levinson Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
"His finest book to date--the most ambitious, the richest in
writing and psychological drama, the most emotionally and
intellectually demanding. It feels as though he has raised this
book out of the darkest regions of his art and life"--Sherod
Santos
"Magic City celebrates the splendors of imagination's birth in
childhood. We're in a completely new poetic universe--the natal
world of Bogaloosa, Louisiana with its voodoo and gullah songs,
worries about the Klan, zigzag lightning bugs, Mardi Gras
flambeaus, pigweed, and chain-gangs by the roadside. Komunyakaa
gives to these, his firstnesses, savoring poetic homages that float
like butterflies, sting like bees. What language, what pain, what
beauty."--Garrett Hongo
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