Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • II • • II • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • a • • I) •••• •• • • • • • II • • • • • • • • • • • II • • • • • II •• •• •• .. • • • • • • • Y USE F KOMUNYAKAA • • • • • • • • • • •• ••••• • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• •• •• • • • •••• •• • • NEW AND S E LEe TED POE M S Wesleyan University Press / Middletown, Connecticut Published by Wesleyan University Press Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress Copyright© 1993 byYusefKomunyakaa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 II 10 CIP data appear at the end of the book Originally produced in 1993 by WesleyanlUniversity Press of New England Hanover, NH 03755 The "New Poems" appeared in the following magazines: Calla/oo, Indiana Arts, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Louisville Review, Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Red Dirt, River Styx, and The Southern Review. Dedications & Other Darkhorses, Rocky Mountain Creative Arts Journal, 1977; included by permission. Lost in the Bonewhee/ Factory, Lynx House Press, 1979; included by permission. Copacetic, Wesleyan University Press, [984; included by permission. Toys in a Field, Black River Press, 1986; included by permission. I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Wesleyan University Press, 1986; included by permission. Dien Cai Dau, Wesleyan University Press, 1988; included by permission. February in Sydney, Matchbooks, 1989; included by permission. "Front cover illusrtation, Uptown Looking Downtown, by Romare Estate of Romare Bearden, Bearden. Galleries, New York, NY. courtsey of ACA " In memory of my grandmother, Mary, and my father, J. W. ...