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Timothy Donnelly Reads Yusef Komunyakaa

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Exploring the depths of a poem

The speaker was initially drawn to the poem 'Fortress' by Yusuf Komunyakaa due to its musicality and rhythm. Later, the speaker discovered a sense of ritual and occult meaning within the poem, which evolved into a deeper understanding of fixed meanings and hidden mysteries with each subsequent reading, leading to a continuously deepening relationship with the poem over time.

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