Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)

By Yusef Komunyakaa

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567396
• ISBN13: 9780819567390
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up