RaveBoston ReviewWas it John Coltrane who said, \'I don’t play jazz I play John Coltrane\'? You are not simply writing \'jazz poems\' at this point, you are writing \'Yusef Komunyakaa\' ... Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth got me thinking about the continuous motion between learning and knowing ... I’ve learned to look forward to the things I don’t know—the room left inside a Yusef poem ... Debates over the key Komunyakaa poem always include \'Facing It,\' \'Venus’s-flytraps,\' \'Anodyne.”\'This new book only makes the debate more impossible to resolve. And the poem \'Fortress\' is reason enough to reread everything I’ve read before. How did I miss that poem? I shudder to think how much beauty is covered by blind spots ... The work of the hands was to be part of whatever path opened before your clairvoyantly counseled fifteen-year-old self. I rejoice that they make such poems.
