num_pages: 136
description: Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa delivers a powerful meditation on American, and particularly African American, life in the wake of Vietnam.Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music.
language: English
title: Thieves of Paradise
titlecomplete: Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 144
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Wesleyan University Press