Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Yusef Komunyakaa
Born: April 29, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Known for:
- Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1993)
- Dien Cai Dau (1988)
- Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000)
- Thieves of Paradise (1998)
- Gilgamesh (2006)