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Dien Cai Dau

1988-09-01 Poetry
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Release : 1988-09-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dien Cai Dau by : Yusef Komunyakaa

Download or read book Dien Cai Dau written by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 1988-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist

Warhorses

2009-10-13 Poetry
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Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 919/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Warhorses by : Yusef Komunyakaa

Download or read book Warhorses written by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warhorses is the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers. This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo or Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted but desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines "the old masters of Shock & Awe" daydreaming of "lovely Penelope / like a trophy."

Pleasure Dome

2004-09-20 History
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Release : 2004-09-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 396/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Pleasure Dome by : Yusef Komunyakaa

Download or read book Pleasure Dome written by Yusef Komunyakaa. This book was released on 2004-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.

Here, Bullet

2014-09-01 Poetry
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Release : 2014-09-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 147/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Here, Bullet by : Brian Turner

Download or read book Here, Bullet written by Brian Turner. This book was released on 2014-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

Flashback Through the Heart

2004 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2004
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 826/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flashback Through the Heart by : Angela M. Salas

Download or read book Flashback Through the Heart written by Angela M. Salas. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In doing so, the author seeks to convince readers that Komunyakaa has never been solely interested in dealing with the complexities of race in his work, although he does so to stunning effect in such works as Dien Cai Dau, a volume invoking the horrors of the war in Vietnam."--Jacket.

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