Dien Cai Dau / Yusef Komunyakaa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Komunyakaa, Yusef.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Wesleyan poetry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Poetry.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 63 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1988]

Summary:

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.

Contents:

Camouflaging the Chimera 3

Tunnels 5

Somewhere Near Phu Bai 7

Starlight Scope Myopia 8

Red Pagoda 10

A Greenness Taller Than Gods 11

The Dead at Quang Tri 12

Hanoi Hannah 13

Roll Call 15

Fragging 16

"You and I Are Disappearing" 17

2527th Birthday of the Buddha 18

Re-creating the Scene 19

Night Muse & Mortar Round 21

One More Loss to Count 22

Sappers 24

Nude Pictures 25

We Never Know 26

A Break from the Bush 27

Seeing in the Dark 28

Tu Do Street 29

Communique 30

The Edge 32

Donut Dollies 34

Prisoners 35

Jungle Surrender 37

Eyeball Television 39

The One-legged Stool 40

Short-timer's Calender 43

Thanks 44

To Have Danced with Death 46

Report from the Skull's Diorama 47

Combat Pay for Jody 49

Sunset Threnody 51

After the Fall 53

Saigon Bar Girls, 1975 54

Toys in a Field 56

Boat People 57

Dui Boi, Dust of Life 58

Missing in Action 59

Losses 61

Between Days 62

Facing It 63.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

0819521639 :

081951165X

OCLC:

17731831