An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.
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: Yusef Komunyakaa
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 10/09/1992
Series: Wesleyan Poetry
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.62w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9780819512086
Language: English
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