I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction. - Yusef Komunyakaa
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
- Yusef Komunyakaa
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential q… - Yusef Komunyakaa
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential q…
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said throu… - Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said throu…
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to … - Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to …
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. - Yusef Komunyakaa
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a par… - Yusef Komunyakaa
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a par…
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. - Yusef Komunyakaa
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like … - Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like …
Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice. - Yusef Komunyakaa
Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.
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