Quote of the day
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
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)