In this Issue

Table of Contents

Praise Be

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 474
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0104
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Kindness

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 475
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0105
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The Same Beat

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 476-477
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0106
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From Autobiography of My Alter Ego

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 478-486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0107
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Portrait of Gratitude

Sascha Feinstein
pp. 488-490
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0079
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Komunyakaa in Colorado

Alexander Blackburn
pp. 491-499
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0067
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"Off the Rim"

Adrian Matejka
pp. 500-504
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0134
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Mentor and Friend: Yusef Komunyakaa as Teacher

Vicente F. Gotera
pp. 505-512
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0087
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Seeing and Re-Seeing: An Exchange between Yusef Komunyakaa and Toi Derricotte

Toi Derricotte, Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 513-518
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0077
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A Conversation with Yusef Komunyakaa

G. F. Mitrano, Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 521-530
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0136
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from Talking to Myself

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 531-534
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0108
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from Gilgamesh

Yusef Komunyakaa, Chad Gracia
pp. 537-540
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0088
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Collaborating with Komunyakaa: The Creation of Gilgamesh

Chad Gracia
pp. 541-544
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0089
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All Journeys Lead Home: The Saga of Gilgamesh and the Progress of a Reluctant Actor

Franklin Ojeda Smith
pp. 545-551
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0143
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Night

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 555
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0109
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Nighttime Begins with a Line by Pablo Neruda

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 556
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0110
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Doralis's Picnic, and: Nightrider, and: Double Self-Portrait, and: Bird Alone

Rachel Bliss
pp. 557-560
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0062
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Blue Dementia

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 561-562
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0111
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Tree Ghost

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 563
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0112
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Daybreak

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0113
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Ignis Fatuus

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 565
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0114
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Togetherness

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 566
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0115
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Gotta Have

Hermine Pinson, Thomas Doncker
p. 567
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0138
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Yusef Komunyakaa's New Blues

Hermine Pinson
pp. 568-571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0139
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New Blues

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 573-574
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0116
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Otherwise

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 575
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0117
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A Grown Woman's Love

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 576-577
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0118
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Thirteen Kinds of Desire: A Collaboration

Pamela Knowles
pp. 578-581
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0100
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Flying High

Pamela Knowles
p. 582
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0101
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Flying High

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 583
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0119
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Incantation

Pamela Knowles
p. 584
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0102
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A Finer Form

T. J. Anderson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jerry Washington Ward
pp. 585-591
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0063
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Slip Knot: A Staged Workshop of a Operatic Work in Progress

T. J. Anderson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rachael Gates, Noel Koran, Rhoda Levine
pp. 592-603
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0064
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The Herido Project

Dennis Gonzalez
pp. 604-609
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0085
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The Herido Project

Dennis Gonzalez
p. 610
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0086
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Drawing One, and: Drawing Two

Susie Ibarra
pp. 611-619
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0094
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from Shangri La

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 612-615
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0120
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from Shangri-La

Susie Ibarra
pp. 616-618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0093
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Komunyakaa, Collaboration, and the Wishbone: An Interview

Michael Collins, Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 620-634
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0070
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On the Phone with Composer Bill Banfield

Michael Collins, William C. Banfield
pp. 635-642
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0071
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Free Blues Suite

William C. Banfield
p. 643
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0066
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No-Good Blues

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 644-647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0121
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A Pianist's Final Piece: DeWitt's Descent

Amy Waldman
pp. 648-656
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0147
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from The Reincarnated Beethoven

T. J. Anderson
p. 657
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0065
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The Reincarnated Beethoven

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 658-670
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0122
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from Dream Horses

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 671-676
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0123
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from Dream Horses

Anthony Davis
pp. 677-679
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0076
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from Love in the Time of War

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 680
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0124
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Translating Yusef Komunyakaa into Czech: A Personal Confession

Josef Jarab
pp. 691-696
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0098
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Anodyn

Yusef Komunyakaa, Josef Jarab
pp. 697-698
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0099
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Anodyne

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 699-700
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0125
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Rhythm that Survives, Rhythm that Saves

Michal Tabaczynski
pp. 701-702
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0144
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"Seven Deadly Sins" (2 fragments)

Yusef Komunyakaa, Michal Tabaczynski
pp. 703-704
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0145
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From "Seven Deadly Sins"

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 705-706
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0126
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Notes of Translating Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry into Italian

Antonella Francini
pp. 707-712
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0081
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Lettere d'amore di mio padre

Yusef Komunyakaa, Antonella Francini
pp. 713-714
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0082
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My Father's Love Letters

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 715
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0127
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On Awareness

Mejer Caso, Valerie, 1961-
pp. 716-717
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0135
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"Tu y yo estamos desapareciendo"

Yusef Komunyakaa, Mejer Caso, Valerie, 1961-
pp. 718-719
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0090
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"You and I Are Disappearing"

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 720
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0091
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"Nienaturalny stan jednorozca": Translating Komunyakaa's "Unicorn" into Polish

Katarzyna Jakubiak
pp. 721-722
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0095
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Nienaturalny stan jednorozca

Yusef Komunyakaa, Katarzyna Jakubiak
p. 723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0096
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Unnatural State of the Unicorn

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 724
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0128
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Man Talking to a Mirror: On the Attempt to Translate Yusef Komunyakaa's Vibrant Verbal Landscape into the Mild Undulations of Brazilian Portuguese

Flavia Rocha
pp. 725-727
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0140
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Venus insetivora: armadilha para mosca

Yusef Komunyakaa, Flavia Rocha
pp. 728-730
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0141
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Venus's-Flytraps

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 731-732
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0129
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Komunyakaa and the Kolkata Book Fair: Entries from a Diary of a Journey to India

Goutam Datta, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dhritishankar Sen
pp. 734-747
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0074
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Tu Do Street

Yusef Komunyakaa, Goutam Datta
p. 748
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0075
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Tu Do Street

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 749
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0130
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Komunyakaa and the Launching of Meena

Andy Young
pp. 750-751
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0148
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How I See Things

Yusef Komunyakaa, Khaled Hegazzi
p. 752
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0092
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How I See Things

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 753-754
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0131
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Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the Humanity of Charlie Parker

Sascha Feinstein
pp. 757-762
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0080
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Madame Nhu, Woman and Warrior: A Reading of "Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring"

Laurence Goldstein
pp. 764-770
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0083
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Dragon Lady

Laurence Goldstein
pp. 771-773
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0084
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On Close Reading: Yusef Komunyakaa's "White Lady"

Natasha D. Trethewey
pp. 775-777
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0146
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White Lady

Yusef Komunyakaa
p. 779
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0132
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Open the Unusual Door: Visions from the Dark Window in Yusef Komunyakaa's Early Poems

Edward M. Pavlic
pp. 780-796
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0137
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Talking Dirty to the Gods and the Infinitude of Language: Or, Mr. Komunyakaa's Cabinet of Wonder

Angela M. Salas
pp. 798-811
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0142
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Working in the Space of Disaster: Yusef Komunyakaa's Dialogues with America

Michael C. Dowdy
pp. 812-823
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0078
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Yusef Komunyakaa's Blues: The Postmodern Music of Neon Vernacular

Keith D. Leonard
pp. 825-849
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0133
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Weave a Circle Round Him Thrice: Komunyakaa's Hoodoo Balancing Act

Keith Cartwright
pp. 851-863
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0068
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Between a Failure and a New Creation: (Re)reading Yusef Komunyakaa's "The Beast & Burden" in the Light of Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic

Katarzyna Jakubiak
pp. 865-881
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0097
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Yusef Komunyakaa: A Bibliography

Michael Collins
pp. 883-886
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0072
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Images and Music

p. 2005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0103
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Komunyakaa's Pictures of Choice: An Introduction

Michael Collins
pp. 467-471
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0069
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Contributors

pp. 887-890
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0073
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