Dear Yusef - Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa

"Anthology of new work from famous and new writers honoring the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning African American poet Yusef Komunyakaa"--

About the author

JOHN MURILLO is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. Among his honors are the 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the TS Eliot Foundation, and the Poetry Society of Virginia's North American Book Award. Currently, he serves as associate professor of English at Wesleyan University. NICOLE SEALEY is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (2023), an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, Ordinary Beast (2017), finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named (2016), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She was the Executive Director at Cave Canem from 2017-2019. She teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Murillo (Editor)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9780819501332
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-0133-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories