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Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry)
by Yusef Komunyakaa

    Publication Date: Mar 28, 2017
    List Price: $70.00
    Format: Hardcover, 238 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9780472073443
    Imprint: University of Michigan Press
    Publisher: University of Michigan Press
    Parent Company: University of Michigan

    Hardcover Description:

    Condition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that “we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels, plays, poems, or songs.” Also included are essays and interviews on: coming home to Bogalusa, Louisiana; the influence of religion on black poetry; language and eroticism; the visual artist Floyd Tunson; and the poets Robert Hayden, Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Etheridge Knight. The book features an extended introduction by editor Radiclani Clytus, who concludes that “Condition Red issues readers much more than a critical warning; it reminds us that our innate cultural capacity for language is, and always has been, the sum total of that which defines us.”



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