Yusef Komunyakaa: A Bibliography

This five-part bibliography lists Komunyakaa's primary works in poetry and prose, as well as the books he has edited or co-edited and the CDs on which he performs. The fifth section lists selected secondary sources on Komunyakaa and his work.

1. Komunyakaa's Books

Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004.

Scandalize My Name. London: Picador, 2002.

Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Talking Dirty to the Gods. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. (Finalist, National Books Critics Circle Award.)

Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries. Ed. Radiclani Clytus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Thieves of Paradise. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. (Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 1999.)

Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977–1989. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1994; Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award, 1994.)

Magic City. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992.

February in Sydney (Chapbook).Matchbooks, 1989.

Dien Cai Dau. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.

I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. (San Francisco Poetry Center Award.)

Toys in a Field (Chapbook). Black River Press, 1986.

Copacetic. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1984.

Lost in the Bonewheel Factory. Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1979. (Finalist, Elliston Book Award).

Dedications and Other Dark Horses. Rocky Mountain Creative Arts Journal, 1977.

2. Edited by Komunyakaa

Best American Poetry 2003. Guest editor. Series Editor: David Lehman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Ploughshares. Guest editor. (Spring 1997)

The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Co-edited with J.A. Sascha Feinstein, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996

The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Co-edited with J.A. Sascha Feinstein. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Gumbo. Co-editor, 1976–1978.

3. Komunyakaa's CDs

—with John Tchicai: Love Notes from the Madhouse (8^th Harmonic Breakdown 1998).

—with Dennis Gonzalez: Herido: Live at St. James Cathedral, Chicago (8^th Harmonic Breakdown 2001).

4. Komunyakaa Articles and Poems in Callaloo

"Grenade," 27.2 (Spring 2004): 407.

from "Autobiography of My Alter Ego," 27.2 (Spring 2004): 409–410.

"Dead Reckoning," 27.2 (Spring 2004): 408.

"Langston Hughes + Poetry = The Blues," 25.4 (Fall 2002): 1140–1143.

"Cante Jondo," 25.4 (Fall 2002): 1138–1139.

"Langston Hughes," 25.4 ( Fall 2002): 1137.

"You Made Me," 24.4 (Fall 2001): 1080–1082.

from Séance, 24.4 (Fall 2001): 1061–1079.

"Venus's-Flytraps" 24.3 (Summer 2001): 807–808.

"Two Cranial Murals," 24.3 (Summer 2001): 806.

"Red Pagoda," 24.3 (Summer 2001): 804–805.

"Birds on a Powerline," 24.3 (Summer 2001): 803.

"Re-Creating the Scene." 24.1 ( Winter 2001): 113–114.

"Bennelong's Blues," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 35.

"Red Dust," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 34.

"Strands," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 33.

"A Story," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 32.

"The Trapper's Bride," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 31.

"Heroes of Waterloo," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 30.

"The Tally," 20.1 (Winter 1997): 28–29.

"At the Red Sea," 17.4 (Fall 1994): 957–958.

"Breasts," 17.4 (Fall 1994): 956.

"The Deck," 17.4 (Fall 1994): 955.

"Crack," 16.2 (Spring 1993): 304–305.

"Slam, Dunk, & Hook," 14.3 (Summer 1991): 631–632.

"Salome," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 251–252.

"White Port & Lemon Juice," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 249–250.

"Between Angels & Monsters," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 247–248.

"Albino," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 244–245.

"The Steel Plate," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 241–242.

"The Millpond," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 239–240.

"The Whistle," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 232–234.

"Venus's-Flytrap," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 230–231.

" 'Lines of Tempered Steel': An Interview With Yusef Komunyakaa," 13.2 (Spring 1990): 215–229.

"The Edge," 35 (Spring 1988): 225–226.

"Boxing Day: 'Burns never landed a blow. It was hopeless, preposterous, heroic.'" Number 35 (Spring 1988): 223–224.

"Report From The Lucky Country," 25 (Spring 1988):. 220–221.

"The One-Legged Stool," 32 (Summer 1987): 387–389.

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