I searched through the list of authors we had been given, and chose Komunyakaa after reading through the names of available authors. I went on to Google, and searched for information about him. I opened the first website on the list, and was pleasantly surprised by the interestingly bizarre poems written by Komunyakaa, such as "You and I are Disappearing", "Ode to the Maggot", and "Camouflaging the Chimera". Reading through his poems, I found that, …showed first 75 words of 920 total…

…showed last 75 words of 920 total…thing apart. Little Master of earth, no one gets to heaven Without going through you first. Bibliography: Jones, Paul "The Internet Poetry Archive" Yusef Komunyakaa <www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa> The Academy of American Poets 1997--2004 Yusef Komunyakaa <www.poets.org/LIT/poet/ykomufst.htm> Brunner, Edward "Modern American Poetry" Yusef Komunyakaa <www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ poets/g_l/komunyakaa/komunyakaa.htm>