Yusef Komunyakaa (19 works by)
Born: Established: 29 Apr 1947 Louisiana ;
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion
At the University of New Orleans Komunyakaa met Mandy Sayer whom he married in 1985. Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa/bio.html Email to KK 18/5/05 JK Could you advise re Komunyakaa, Yusef >http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A()u >Biography: 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 Thieves of >Paradise > >See his website. >http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa/bio.html 19/5/05 reply email from KK - 'Put this guy in with the single work that is referred to.' JK 19/5/05 JK to amend BAL comment depending on LB sighting of February in Sydney : poems. 19/5/05

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.

Awards for Works

Thieves of Paradise , 1998 poetry selected work
1999 shortlisted International Awards National Book Critics' Circle (USA)