Yusef Komunyakaa — Praising Dark Places
Poetry Unbound
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The World Doesn't Operate in This Kind of a Way
Jusef cominaka's poem is a meditation on the world and its contradictions. The poet uses metaphors such as light and darkness in his work. He asks: who gets to say that one thing is only onething? In this couple of lines, he is looking at the earth. This is the voice of a man now, not thevoice of a child.
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