Yusef Komunyakaa (International) assertion Yusef Komunyakaa i(A18164 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 Louisiana,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

American poet and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. Komunyakaa lived in Kings Cross in the mid-1980s and many of the poems he wrote about the area are collected in February in Sydney : Poems and Thieves of Paradise.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Thieves of Paradise Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press , 1998 Z1005451 1998 selected work poetry
1999 shortlisted National Book Critics' Circle (USA)
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