A Break from the Bush (The South China Sea) | 1993 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/a_break_from_the_bush.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa10.html
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa10.html |
A Reed Boat (The boats tarred and shellacked to a water-repellent) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/a_reed_boat.php |
After Summer Fell Apart (I cant touch you) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177458 |
Anodyne (I love how it swells) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/anodyne.php |
Believing in Iron (The hills my brothers & I created) | 1992 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/believing_in_iron.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa7.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16182
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/believing-in-iron/
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa1.html |
Blackberries (They left my hands like a printers) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/blackberries.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa6.html
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa9.html |
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets (the need gotta be) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/blue_light_lounge_sutra_for_the_performance_poets_at_harold_park_hotel.php |
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews and Commentaries | 2000 | Collection | |
Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival (my story is) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177455 |
Camouflaging the Chimera (We tied branches to our helmets) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/camouflaging_the_chimera.php
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177459 |
Cape Coast Castle (I made love to you, & it loomed there) | 2010 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21832 |
Confluence (Ive been here before, dreaming myself) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177462 |
Copacetic (poems) | 1984 | Collection | |
Deck (I have almost nailed my left thumb to the 2x4 brace that holds) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/deck.php |
Dedications and Other Darkhorses (poems) | 1977 | Collection | |
Dien Cai Dau/This Crazy Head (poems) | 1988 | Collection | |
Elegy for Thelonious (Damn the snow) | 1984 | Poem | |
Facing It (My black face fades) | 1988 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/facing_it.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa2.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15830
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/facing-it/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177382
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa2.html |
February in Sydney (poems) | 1989 | Collection | |
Gilgamesh (play) | 2006 | Play | |
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head | 1986 | Poem | |
Infidelity (Zeus always introduces himself) | 2000 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178025 |
Instructions for Building Straw Huts (First you must have) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177454 |
Jasmine (I sit beside two women, kitty-corner) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16011
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jasmine/ |
Kindness (I acknowledge my status as a stranger) | 2003 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=31000 |
Lime (The victorious army marches into the city) | 2000 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/lime.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa1.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178024
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa6.html |
Lost in the Bonewheel Factory (poems) | 1979 | Collection | |
Magic City (poems) | 1992 | Collection | |
Memory of the Murdered Professors at the Jagiellonian (They fired a) | 2010 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239960 |
Moonshine (Drunken laughter escapes) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177461 |
My Fathers Love Letters (On Fridays hed open a can of Jax) | 1988 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/my_father%27s_love_letters.php
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yusef_komunyakaa/poems/17897
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Yusef-Komunyakaa/5564
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa9.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15928
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-father-s-love-letters/
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-father-s-love-letters-audio-only/
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/5633/
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/yusef_komunyakaa/my_fathers_love_letters
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa4.html |
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems | 1993 | Collection | |
Ode to the Drum (Gazelle, I killed you) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/ode_to_the_drum.php |
Ode to the Maggot (Brother of the blowfly) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/ode_to_the_maggot.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa8.html
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa8.html |
Ode to the Raccoon (I have witnessed you) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/ode_to_the_racoon.php |
On Tory Dents HIV, Mon Amour | 1999 | Essay | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15757 |
Once the Dream Begins (I wish the bell saved you) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180592 |
Please (Forgive me, soldier) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177457 |
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (poems) | 2001 | Collection | |
Poetics (Beauty, Ive seen you) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177452 |
Potions (The old woman made mint) | 2000 | Poem | http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yusef_komunyakaa/poems/17899
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Yusef-Komunyakaa/2408
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/potions/
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/2466/
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/yusef_komunyakaa/potions |
Prisoners (Usually at the helipad) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/prisoners.php
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yusef_komunyakaa/poems/17898
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Yusef-Komunyakaa/6761
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa3.html
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prisoners/
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/6799/
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/yusef_komunyakaa/prisoners
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa7.html |
Reflections (In the days mirror) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177453 |
Rhythm Method (If you were sealed inside a box) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/rhythm_method.php |
Slam, Dunk & Hook (Fast breaks. Lay ups. With Mercurys) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180588
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/slamdunk.php
http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa4.html
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa3.html |
Sloth (If youre one of seven) | 1999 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=29900 |
South Carolina Morning (Her red dress & hat) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177450 |
Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part I (poems) | 2004 | Collection | |
Talking Dirty to the Gods (poems) | 2000 | Collection | |
Thanks (Thanks for the tree) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/thanks.php |
The Insomnia of Fire (translation) | 1995 | Collection | |
The Jazz Poetry Anthology (ed.) | 1991-96 | Collection | |
The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 (ed.) | 1996 | Collection | |
The Shortest Night (I went into the forest searching) | 2010 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239962 |
The Smoke House (In the hickory scent) | 1993 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/the_smoke_house.php
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21470 |
The Whistle (The seven oclock whistle) | 1992 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/yusefkomunyakaa5.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15318
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-whistle/
http://www.ctadams.com/yusefkomunyakaa5.html |
Thieves of Paradise (poems) | 1998 | Collection | |
Togetherness (Someone says Tristan) | 2005 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171045 |
Toys in a Field (Using the gun mounts) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177456 |
Tu Do Street (Music divides the evening) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/tu_do_street.php |
Urban Renewal (The sun slides down behind brick dust) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177451 |
Venus Flytraps (I am five) | | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/venus%27-flytraps.php |
Warhorses (poems) | 2008 | Collection | |
We Never Know (He danced with tall grass) | 1988 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/we_never_know.php
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180593 |
Woebegone (We pierce tongue) | 1990 | Poem | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/19980830.htm |
Yellow Dog Cafe (In a cerulean ruckus) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177460 |
Yellowjackets (When the plowblade struck) | 2001 | Poem | http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/yellow_jackets.php
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181240 |
You and I Are Disappearing-Bjorn Hakansson (The cry I bring down) | | Poem | |