Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Komunyakaa received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the poetry world.

His subject matter ranges from the black experience through rural Southern life before the Civil Rights era and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. April 1947
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Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

“I am this space my body believes in.”

Yusef Komunyakaa

Source: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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