The chameleon couch : poems / Yusef Komunyakaa.

Author/creator Komunyakaa, Yusef
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Description115 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Poetry.

Contents Canticle -- The Janus preface -- Eclogue at midnight -- Ignis Fatuus -- The story of a coat -- Ten or eleven disguises -- Ode to the chameleon -- A translation of silk -- Ode to the Shakuhachi -- The one-handed concerto -- Dead reckoning -- Cape coast castle -- Sappho of Mytilene -- The cage, the head -- Kindness -- Black figs -- Aubade at Hotel Copernicus -- Fata Morgana -- Conceived in a time of war -- Memory of the murdered professors at the Jagiellonian -- English -- Poppies -- Orpheus at the second gate of Hades -- Three figures at the base of a crucifixion -- A visit to inner sanctum -- The shortest night -- Unlikely claims -- When eyes are on me -- Blackbirding on the Hudson -- Begotten -- Blue dementia -- A poem written inside a big round machine -- Fortune -- Flesh -- Grunge -- Nostalgia, or between lovers -- Green -- Dangerousness -- The white dog syndrome -- Ode to the guitar -- The hedonist -- How it is -- Nighttime begins with a line by Pablo Neruda -- Surrender -- Daybreak -- Goodness -- A voice on an answering machine -- The beautiful quickness of a street boy -- Last of the monkey gods -- Gone -- Togetherness -- Adonis in the Big Apple -- The window dresser's song -- Dear Mr. Decoy -- Eddie, the immune -- The thorn merchant's godson -- Ontology & Guinness.
Abstract A collection of poems by Yusef Komunyakaa that explores the complexities of culture and its relation to artifact and place.
LCCN 2010033148
ISBN9780374120382 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0374120382 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3561.O455 C48 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold