Pleasure Dome
New and Collected Poems
By Yusef Komunyakaa
(Wesleyan University Press, Paperback, 9780819567390, 445pp.)
Publication Date: August 2004
Categories: American - General
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Description
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.











