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Yusef Komunyakaa's Reading List

“I’ve read Neruda, Walcott, Brooks, Lorca and Hayden multiple times — everything they have written,” says the poet, whose collection “Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth” will be released in March. “Over and over, and yet I continue to discover something new.”

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By the Book: Yusef Komunyakaa (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-01-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · Buy on Amazon
"keep returning to the moment Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" first shook me fully awake. Now I know it was the robust poetry doing its job inside the prose -- that natural convergence of sacred and profane."
Black Boy
Richard Wright · Buy on Amazon
"When I first read Richard Wright's novel "Black Boy" I felt poetry in his description of the land"
Cover of Cane
Cane
Jean Toomer · Buy on Amazon
"Jean Toomer's "Cane" is interwoven with poetry, that the book's inventive structure is shaped out of the author's allegiance to the work of lyrical poetry -- how each trope comes so close to song."
A Choice of Weapons
Gordon Parks · Buy on Amazon
"I have admired for decades Gordon Parks's photography, his memoir "A Choice of Weapons" and his novel "The Learning Tree.""
The Learning Tree
Gordon Parks · Buy on Amazon
"I have admired for decades Gordon Parks's photography, his memoir "A Choice of Weapons" and his novel "The Learning Tree.""

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