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Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

Yusef Komunyakaa

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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."

Book Details

  • Publisher: University of Michigan Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2017
  • Pages: 238
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.60in - 0.90in - 0.95lb
  • EAN: 9780472073443
  • Categories: • American - African American & Black• American - African American & Black• General

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About the Author

Yusef Komunyakaa's most recent book of poetry is The Emperor of Water Clocks. His collection Neon Vernacular received the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City where he is currently Distinguished Senior Poet in New York University's graduate creative writing program.

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"[Komunyakaa] has not only displayed a profound understanding of the human condition, but also a craftsman's ability to durably articulate it . . . a major poet of our generation."
--Laurence Goldstein, in Callaloo

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