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    Dien Cai Dau

    By Yusef Komunyakaa

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    Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWesleyan
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9780819573780
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    Dien Cai Dau
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    Yusef Komunyakaa

    Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor and senior distinguished poet in the graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of twenty collections of poetry, including Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular and Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, With New and Selected Jazz Poetry. Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for Neon Vernacular.

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    • 5/5
      Dien Cai Dau is the best collection of war poetry I have ever read. I don't know if the relative immediacy of the Vietnam War, and the unquestionable importance that war had for the generation just ahead of me, predisposes me to be drawn to this collection, or not. I do know the collection as a collection is truly beautiful and haunting. Overall, I really like and respect Komunyakaa's body of work, and believe this collection to be his absolute finest. And Komunyakaa's "Facing It" (a poem in this collection) has few rivals among the staggering number of free verse English poems ever written.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic war poetry, mostly dealing with the author's experience in Vietnam.