Dien Cai Dau

by Komunyakaa, Yusef

• ISBN13: 9780819521637
• ISBN10: 0819521639
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-12-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Camouflaging the Chimera	p. 3
Tunnels	p. 5
Somewhere Near Phu Bai	p. 7
Starlight Scope Myopia	p. 8
Red Pagoda	p. 10
A Greenness Taller Than Gods	p. 11
The Dead at Quang Tri	p. 12
Hanoi Hannah	p. 13
Roll Call	p. 15
Fragging	p. 16
"You and I Are Disappearing"	p. 17
2527th Birthday of the Buddha	p. 18
Re-creating the Scene	p. 19
Night Muse and Mortar Round	p. 21
One More Loss to Count	p. 22
Sappers	p. 24
Nude Pictures	p. 25
We Never Know	p. 26
A Break from the Bush	p. 27
Seeing in the Dark	p. 28
Tu Do Street	p. 29
Communique	p. 30
The Edge	p. 32
Donut Dollies	p. 34
Prisoners	p. 35
Jungle Surrender	p. 37
Eyeball Television	p. 39
The One-legged Stool	p. 40
Short-timer's Calender	p. 43
Thanks	p. 44
To Have Danced with Death	p. 46
Report from the Skull's Diorama	p. 47
Combat Pay for Jody	p. 49
Sunset Threnody	p. 51
After the Fall	p. 53
Saigon Bar Girls, 1975	p. 54
Toys in a Field	p. 56
Boat People	p. 57
Dui Boi, Dust of Life	p. 58
Missing in Action	p. 59
Losses	p. 61
Between Days	p. 62
Facing It	p. 63
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