The best writing we've had from the long war in Vietnam has been prose so far. Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau changes that.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and revived the Bronze Star. He is now Professor of English at Princeton University. Komunyakaa won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award for his book Neon Vernacular. His other books published by Wesleyan University Press include Copacetic (1984), I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Award, Magic City (1992), and Thieves of Paradise (1998).
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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