Condition red: essays, interviews, and commentaries

by Komunyakaa, Yusef

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Title Statements

Full title :Condition red : essays, interviews, and commentaries / Yusef Komunyakaa ; edited by Radiclani Clytus.

Summary

"Condition Red collects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that "we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels, plays, poems, or songs." Also included are essays and interviews on:coming home to Bogalusa, Louisiana; the influence of religion on black poetry; language and eroticism; the visual artist Floyd Tunson; and the poets Robert Hayden, Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Etheridge Knight."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780472122745, 0472122746
oclc:on1276901783
LC Classification:PS3561.O455
Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Subjects

interviews Komunyakaa, Yusef LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African… Poésie -- Art d'écrire Poètes américains -- Entretiens. -- 20e… Poetics Poétique Poetry -- Authorship POETRY / American / African American Poets, American Poets, American -- Interviews. -- 20th …