There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't
think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry
of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems
with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long
before poets had to deal with the page and white
space... it's natural.


Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries (ed. Univ of Michigan Pr, 2000)

Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion,...

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion,...

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion,...

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion,...