Title: Magic City Author: Yusef Komunyakaa ISBN: 9780819512086 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Published: 1992 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Edition Number of Pages: 68 Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Publisher Description: An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community, the constant struggle for survival in the face of poverty and racism, the adolescent's awakening sexuality, the beginnings of the poet's awareness of his life and community as it exists in the context of history, and his emerging understanding of his own identity.
