An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.

Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 10/09/1992
ISBN: 9780819512086
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.62w x 0.22d

Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/1992 pg. 231
New York Times 11/21/2004 pg. 15