Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Born: April 29, 1941 (age 84)
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)