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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822026103321

Autore

Komunyakaa Yusef

Titolo

Dien Cai Dau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, : Wesleyan University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8195-7378-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 p.)

Collana

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Disciplina

811.54

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Camouflaging the Chimera; Tunnels; Somewhere Near Phu Bai; Starlight Scope Myopia; Red Pagoda; A Greenness Taller Than Gods; The Dead at Quang Tri; Hanoi Hannah; Roll Call; Fragging; ""You and I Are Disappearing""; 2527th Birthday of the Buddha; Re-creating the Scene; Night Muse & Mortar Round; One More Loss to Count; Sappers; Nude Pictures; We Never Know; A Break from the Bush; Seeing in the Dark; Tu Do Street; Communiqué; The Edge; Donut Dollies; Prisoners; Jungle Surrender; Eyeball Television; The One-legged Stool; Short-timer's Calendar; Thanks; To Have Danced with Death

Report from the Skull's DioramaCombat Pay for Jody; Sunset Threnody; After the Fall; Saigon Bar Girls, 1975; Toys in a Field; Boat People; Dui Boi, Dust of Life; Missing in Action; Losses; Between Days; Facing It

Sommario/riassunto

Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.