Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa Criticism

• Principal Works
• Komunyakaa, Yusef (Vol. 94)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • Copacetic
    • A review of Copacetic
    • 'Lines of Tempered Steel': An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa
    • I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
    • I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
    • Facing Up to the Deadly Ordinary
    • Rare Instances of Reconciliation
    • Dien Cai Dau
    • The Poetry of Truth
    • Depending on the Light: Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau
    • Lost City
    • Yusef Komunyakaa: The Unified Vision—Canonization and Humanity
    • Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
    • The Tension between Memory and Forgetting in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Further Reading
• Komunyakaa, Yusef (Vol. 86)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
    • What the Center Holds
    • Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
    • A Poet's Values: It's the Words over the Man
• Komunyakaa, Yusef
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • ‘Depending on the Light’: Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau
    • Jazz and Poetry: A Conversation
    • Yusef Komunyakaa: The Unified Vision—Canonization and Humanity
    • The Truth of the Matter
    • Staying Human
    • On Yusef Komunyakaa
    • Like an Unknown Voice Rising Out of Flesh
    • Vietnam and the ‘Voice Within’: Public and Private History in Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau
    • Yusef Komunyakaa
    • ‘Flashbacks through the Heart’: Yusef Komunyakaa and the Poetry of Self-Assertion
    • Blue Note in a Lyrical Landscape
    • Verse Averse
  • Further Reading