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Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 | Yusef Komunyakaa
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New and selected poems from the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past twenty years of Yusef Komunyakaas work, as well as new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Komunyakaas masterful, concise verse conjures arresting images of peace and war, the natural power of the earth and of love, his childhood in the American South and his service in Vietnam, the ugly violence of racism in America, and the meaning of power and morality. The new poems in this collection add a new refrain to the jazz-inflected rhythms of one of our most significant and individual voices (David Wojahn, Poetry). Komunyakaa writes of a young man fashioning a slingshot, workers who honor the Earth by opening shine / inside the soil, and the sounds of a saxophone filling a dim lounge in New Jersey. As April Bernard wrote in The New York Times Book Review, He refuses to be trivial; and he even dares beauty.
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Collection from 2001-21. Feels like the best of what poetry can be: personal memories & the everyday mixing with the mythical, the historical, the mystic. Truly “mojo songs” with their own distinct music. Evocative, attentive & unafraid. I feel like I‘ve been someplace. Pulitzer indeed. 2021

24 He believes to harmonize is
to reach, to ascend, to query
ego & hold a note

119 Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep again? Come closer.