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Magic City

Magic City

Komunyakaa, Yusef

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0819512087
ISBN13: 9780819512086
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Oct 9 1992
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.

Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.

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