Praise for Yusef Komunyakaa "[Komunyakaa] call[s] to mind Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman- the private gaze and the civic drum, purifying language, purifying history."-Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, The Washington Post Book World "Verses that practically sizzle and spark with intelligence . Komunyakaa thinks like a scholar and writes like a jazz musician. His poems wail and swing to the backbeat of African-American history, dropping knowledge with a wink and a nod to let you know, yes, this man knows a thing or two about what he's talking about."-John Freeman, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Yusef Komunyakaa is . one of our period's most significant and individual voices . He has a near-revelatory capacity to give himself over to his subject matter and to the taut concision of his free verse . Dazzling.

"-David Wojahn, Poetry "[Warhorses ] is galvanizing in its fury and decisive in its rare power . Komunyakaa crafts metaphors and images of shocking precision and startling intensity."-Donna Seaman, Booklist.