ENGLISH

Magic city

By Yusef Komunyakaa

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0819512087, 9780819512086
LCC
PS3561.O455 M34 1992
Google Books ID
ZGU1Irhnd88C
Open Library ID
OL1744784M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
95 kB (97137 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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