Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)