I Said That Love Heals from Inside: Love Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa

A chapbook of love poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa

I Said That Love Heals From Inside: Love Poems is a small treasure featuring five decades of love poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. This selection of poems captures a broad understanding of the love poetry category--there is love and the lack of it everywhere: in the bedroom and on the basketball court in the Jazz club and on the battlefield. As Komunyakaa writes, ＂Hard love, it’s hard love.＂

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor and senior distinguished poet in the graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of over twenty collections of poetry, including Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan, 1984), The Emperor of Water Clocks (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), and Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1993) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. OLIVER EGGER is a poet, editor, and journalist. He edited and compiled The Route 9 Anthology: A Collection of Poetryby Wesleyan University Students, Faculty, Staff and Middlesex County Residents (Wesleyan, 2022).