Yusef Komunyakaa

Bibliography

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POETRY

• Dedications and Other Darkhorses, RMCAJ, 1977.
• Lost in the Bonewheel Factory, Lynx House Press (Amherst, MA), 1979.
• Copacetic, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1984.
• I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Wesleyan University Press, 1986.
• Toys in a Field, Black River Press, 1986.
• Dien Cai Dau, Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
• February in Sydney (chapbook), Matchbooks, 1989.
• Magic City, Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1992.
• Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1993.
• Thieves of Paradise, Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1998.
• Talking Dirty to the Gods, Farrar, Straus, 2000.
• Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

OTHER

• (Editor with Sascha Feinstein) The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Indiana University Press (Bloomington), 1991.
• (Translator, with Martha Collins) The Insomnia of Fire by Nguyen Quang Thieu, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
• (Editor with Feinstein) The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Volume 2, Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries, edited by Radiclani Clytus, University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Contributor to anthologies, including The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, and Carrying the Darkness, edited by W. D. Ehrhart. Contributor of poetry and reviews to periodicals, including Black American Literature Forum, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chameleon, Colorado Quarterly, Free Lance, Poetry Now, and African American Review. Former editor of Gumbo.