Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems

Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 09/20/2004
Series: Wesleyan Poetry
Pages: 445
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780819567390