Magic City
by Komunyakaa, YusefFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-09-01
Publisher(s): Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Summary
Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.
Author Biography
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, recipient of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award for his book Neon Vernacular, is professor of English at Indiana University. His other books include Copacetic (1984), I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Award, and Dien Cai Dau (1988).
Table of Contents
| Venus's-flytraps | p. 1 |
| The Whistle | p. 3 |
| Playthings | p. 6 |
| Yellow Dog Cafe | p. 10 |
| Happiness | p. 12 |
| Seasons Between Yes and No | p. 14 |
| Glory | p. 15 |
| April's Anarchy | p. 16 |
| The Millpond | p. 17 |
| Immolatus | p. 19 |
| Banking Potatoes | p. 20 |
| The Smokehouse | p. 21 |
| Tbe Steel Plate | p. 22 |
| Sunday Afternoons | p. 24 |
| Looking for Choctaw | p. 25 |
| Fleshing-out the Season | p. 26 |
| Blackberries | p. 27 |
| Yellowjackets | p. 28 |
| Gristmill | p. 29 |
| History Lessons | p. 30 |
| Temples of Smoke | p. 32 |
| Boys in Dresses | p. 33 |
| Nude Tango | p. 35 |
| Touch | p. 36 |
| Sugar | p. 37 |
| Albino | p. 38 |
| Halloween, the Late Fifties | p. 40 |
| Mismatched Shoes | p. 42 |
| My Father's Love Letters | p. 43 |
| The Cooling Board | p. 44 |
| Omen | p. 45 |
| Believing in Iron | p. 46 |
| Salome | p. 47 |
| Between Angels and Monsters | p. 48 |
| Poetics of Paperwood | p. 50 |
| Slam, Dunk, and Hook | p. 51 |
| Sex, Magnolias, and Speed | p. 53 |
| Knights of the White Camellia and Deacons of Defense | p. 54 |
| Nocturne | p. 55 |
| Butterfly-Toed Shoes | p. 56 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 59 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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