Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again
Credit...Jillian Tamaki
Jan. 28, 2021
“I’ve read Neruda, Walcott, Brooks, Lorca and Hayden multiple times — everything they have written,” says the poet, whose collection “Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth” will be released in March. “Over and over, and yet I continue to discover something new.”
What books do you have on your night stand?
I don’t have books on my night stands, but I have a few books on an upholstered bench at the foot of my bed: “Tough Love,” by Susan Rice; “Year of the Dog,” by Deborah Paredez; “Fugitive Atlas,” by Khaled Mattawa; “I,” by Toi Derricotte; “A Promised Land,” by Barack Obama; “Act V Scene I,” by Stanley Moss; “Deacon King Kong,” by James McBride; “Arias,” by Sharon Olds; “He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box,” by Adrienne Kennedy.