Yusef Komunyakaa quote

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
Born: Apr 29, 1947

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Try, Past, Believe, Resolving, Enter, Able, Poem, Poems, Abstract, Tension, Participant, Like, Reader, Concrete, Get, Listener, Should, Connecting

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Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman

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