Neon Vernacular

, by Komunyakaa, Yusef

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ISBN: 9780819512116 | 0819512117
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1993

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An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.

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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