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The Chameleon Couch : : Poems

Komunyakaa, Yusef. Book - 2011 811.54 Ko 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 115 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374120382
0374120382

SUBJECTS
Poetry.