Helen Edison Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa

EPISODE · Jun 26, 2001 · 58 MIN

Helen Edison Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa

from Poetry (Video) · host UCTV: UC San Diego

Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640]

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