Neon Vernacular
, by Komunyakaa, YusefNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780819512116 | 0819512117
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/1993
An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the creative writing department at New York University. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and many other awards for poetic achievement, including the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 2004 Shelley Memorial Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Levinson Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Fog Galleon | p. 3 |
At the Screen Door | p. 4 |
Moonshine | p. 5 |
Salt | p. 6 |
Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen | p. 8 |
Work | p. 11 |
Praising Dark Places | p. 13 |
A Good Memory | p. 14 |
Birds on a Powerline | p. 23 |
Fever | p. 24 |
Little Man Around the House | p. 27 |
Songs for My Father | p. 28 |
The Tongue Is | p. 37 |
Chair Gallows | p. 38 |
Translating Footsteps | p. 39 |
Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes | p. 43 |
1938 | p. 44 |
Stepfather: A Girl's Song | p. 45 |
Apprenticeship | p. 46 |
Light on the Subject | p. 47 |
Beg Song | p. 48 |
Passions | p. 49 |
The Dog Act | p. 51 |
For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors | p. 52 |
The Nazi Doll | p. 53 |
Corrigenda | p. 54 |
False Leads | p. 57 |
Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror | p. 58 |
The Way the Cards Fall | p. 59 |
Annabelle | p. 60 |
Faith Healer | p. 61 |
More Girl Than Boy | p. 61 |
April Fools' Day | p. 63 |
Untitled Blues | p. 64 |
Back Then | p. 65 |
Blasphemy | p. 66 |
Safe Subjects | p. 67 |
Black String of Days | p. 69 |
Villon / Leadbelly | p. 70 |
Elegy for Thelonious | p. 71 |
Copacetic Mingus | p. 72 |
Letter to Bob Kaufman | p. 73 |
Woman, I Got the Blues | p. 74 |
Newport Beach, 1979 | p. 75 |
Gloria's Clues | p. 76 |
Charmed | p. 77 |
The Cage Walker | p. 78 |
Addendum | p. 79 |
Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival | p. 80 |
Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival | p. 81 |
Unnatural State of the Unicorn | p. 87 |
Touch-up Man | p. 88 |
How I See Things | p. 89 |
The Thorn Merchant | p. 90 |
The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man | p. 91 |
The Heart's Graveyard Shift | p. 92 |
Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes | p. 94 |
The Music That Hurts | p. 96 |
When in Rome - Apologia | p. 97 |
The Thorn Merchant's Wife | p. 99 |
The Thorn Merchant's Mistress | p. 100 |
After Summer Fell Apart | p. 102 |
The Brain to the Heart | p. 104 |
Audacity of the Lower Gods | p. 105 |
The Falling-Down Song | p. 106 |
The Thorn Merchant's Son | p. 107 |
I Apologize | p. 108 |
1984 | p. 109 |
Dreambook Bestiary | p. 113 |
Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga's Dream | p. 115 |
Landscape for the Disappeared | p. 116 |
Good Joe | p. 118 |
In the Background of Silence | p. 120 |
For the Walking Dead | p. 121 |
Child's Play | p. 122 |
The Beast and Burden: Seven Improvisations | p. 123 |
Ambush | p. 129 |
Monsoon Season | p. 130 |
Water Buffalo | p. 131 |
Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring | p. 132 |
Please | p. 133 |
Camouflaging the Chimera | p. 137 |
Tunnels | p. 138 |
Starlight Scope Myopia | p. 139 |
Hanoi Hannah | p. 141 |
"You and I Are Disappearing" | p. 142 |
Re-creating the Scene | p. 143 |
We Never Know | p. 145 |
A Break from the Bush | p. 146 |
Tu Do Street | p. 147 |
Communique | p. 148 |
Prisoners | p. 150 |
Jungle Surrender | p. 152 |
Thanks | p. 154 |
To Have Danced with Death | p. 155 |
Report from the Skull's Diorama | p. 156 |
Boat People | p. 157 |
Missing in Action | p. 158 |
Facing It | p. 159 |
The Plea | p. 163 |
The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally | p. 165 |
Rocks Push | p. 167 |
When Loneliness Is A Man | p. 169 |
A Quality of Light | p. 170 |
Gerry's Jazz | p. 171 |
Boxing Day | p. 173 |
Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage | p. 175 |
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel | p. 176 |
February in Sydney | p. 178 |
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