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Helen Edison Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa

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Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [6/2001] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640]

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  • Why is the author called a "soldier poet"? Is this because of the courage projected in the poems he wrote?

  • Hypnotic.

  • so beautifully written and read

  • I'm reading "pleasure dome" rightnow from start2finish and I'm loving everypiece of it.

  • awesome.

  • what a gift from UCTV. this man is prolific!

  • Why are there empty chairs in a room where a man of this gravity and elegance is speaking? Where are our values? His voice makes me think of Coleman Barks reading Rumi.

  • what is that song inn the beginning??

  • When Summer Fell Apart is my favorite.

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