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Author Komunyakaa, Yusef, author.

Title Dien Cai Dau / Yusef Komunyakaa
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [1988]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 63 pages)
Series Wesleyan poetry
Wesleyan poetry.
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 diorama -- Combat 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
Summary A collection of poems about Vietnam by a former army combat correspondent
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2024)
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Poetry
American poetry -- 20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Poetry
POETRY -- American -- General.
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780585371252
0585371253
9780819573780
0819573787