{"product_id":"everyday-mojo-songs-of-earth-new-and-selected-poems-2001-2021-paperback","title":"Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize-winning poet \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese songs run along dirt roads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; highways, crisscross lonely seas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; scale mountains, traverse skies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; underworlds of neon honkytonk, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWherever blues dare to travel.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryday Mojo Songs of Earth \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together selected poems from the past twenty years of Yusef Komunyakaa's work, as well as new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Komunyakaa's masterful, concise verse conjures arresting images of peace and war, the natural power of the earth and of love, his childhood in the American South and his service in Vietnam, the ugly violence of racism in America, and the meaning of power and morality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe new poems in this collection add a new refrain to the jazz-inflected rhythms of one of our \"most significant and individual voices\" (David Wojahn, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e). Komunyakaa writes of a young man fashioning a slingshot, workers who \"honor the Earth by opening shine \/ inside the soil,\" and the sounds of a saxophone filling a dim lounge in New Jersey. As April Bernard wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"He refuses to be trivial; and he even dares beauty.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Probably my favorite living poet. No one else taught me more about how important it was to think about how words make people feel. It's not enough for people to know something is true. They have to feel it's true.\" --Ta-Nehisi Coates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e's books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of Water Clocks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTestimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chameleon Couch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWarhorses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTaboo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTalking\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDirty\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGods\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNeon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVernacular\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. His plays, performance art, and librettos have been performed internationally and include \u003ci\u003eWakonda's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaturnalia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTestimony\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh: A Verse Play\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.91 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767543988512,"sku":"9780374604851","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/13417d4728c5f72994edc9ff5742761a.webp?v=1780312928","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/everyday-mojo-songs-of-earth-new-and-selected-poems-2001-2021-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}