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Dien Cai Dau

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573787
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Dien Cai Dau written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist

Dien Cai Dau

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819511641
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Dien Cai Dau written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1988-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.

Warhorses

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374531919
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Warhorses written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warhorses is the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers. This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo or Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like "Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless, an exhausted but desperate prophet. With the leaps and improvisational flourishes of a jazz soloist, Komunyakaa imagines "the old masters of Shock & Awe" daydreaming of "lovely Penelope / like a trophy."

Pleasure Dome

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819567396
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure Dome written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.

Here, Bullet

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Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584147
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Here, Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

Neon Vernacular

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574538
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Neon Vernacular written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection pairs twelve new poems with work from seven previous volumes by “one of the most extraordinary poets writing today” (Kenyon Review). The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa traverses psychological and physical landscapes, mining personal memory to understand the historical and social contexts that shape experience. Neon Vernacular charts the development of his characteristic themes and concerns by gathering work from seven of his previous collections, along with a dozen new poems that continue the autobiographical trajectory of his previous collection, Magic City. Here, Komunyakaa shares an intimate and evocative life journey, from his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana—once a center of Klan activity and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts—to his stormy relationship with his father, his high school football days, and his experience of the Vietnam War and his difficult return home. Many of the poems collected here are drawn from limited editions and are no longer available.

Talking Dirty to the Gods

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374272557
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Talking Dirty to the Gods written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines and evaluates each of the seven deadly sins.

Flashback Through the Heart

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Author : Angela M. Salas
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910826
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Flashback Through the Heart written by Angela M. Salas and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In doing so, the author seeks to convince readers that Komunyakaa has never been solely interested in dealing with the complexities of race in his work, although he does so to stunning effect in such works as Dien Cai Dau, a volume invoking the horrors of the war in Vietnam."--Jacket.

Middle Earth

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Author : Henri Cole
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877766
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Middle Earth written by Henri Cole and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and "a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom) Time was plunging forward, like dolphins scissoring open water or like me, following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef, where the color of sand, sea and sky merged, and it was as if that was all God wanted: not a wife, a house or a position, but a self, like a needle, pushing in a vein.—from "Olympia" In his fifth collection of verse, Henri Cole's melodious lines are written in an open style that is both erotic and visionary. Few poets so thrillingly portray the physical world, or man's creaturely self, or the cycling strain of desire and self-reproach. Few poets so movingly evoke the human quest of "a man alone," trying "to say something true that has body, / because it is proof of his existence." Middle Earth is a revelatory collection, the finest work yet from an author of poems that are "marvels—unbuttoned, riveting, dramatic—burned into being" (Tina Barr, Boston Review).

Taboo

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374530150
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Taboo written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In Taboo he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas, Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra Behn writes Oroonoko "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his neo-classical desk/musing, but we know his mind/is brushing aside abstractions/so his hands can touch flesh." Taboo is the powerful first book in a new trilogy by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.

Blue Notes

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blue Notes written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets

Localizing Learning

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Author : Peter K. Bol
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176522
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Localizing Learning written by Peter K. Bol and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning shows how literati learning in Wuzhou came to encompass examination studies, Neo-Confucian moral philosophy, historical and Classical scholarship, encyclopedic learnedness, and literary writing, and traces how debates over the relative value of moral cultivation, cultural accomplishment, and political service unfolded locally. The book is set in one locality, Wuzhou (later Jinhua), a prefecture in China’s Zhejiang province, from the twelfth through the sixteenth century. Its main actors are literati of the Song, Yuan, and Ming, who created a local tradition of learning as a means of cementing their common identity and their claim to moral, political, and cultural leadership. Close readings of philosophical and literary texts with quantitative analysis of social and kinship networks consider why and how the local literati enterprise was built. By treating learning as the subject, it broadens our perspective, going beyond a history of ideas to investigate the social practices and networks of kinship and collegiality with which literati defined themselves in local, regional, and national contexts.

Thieves of Paradise

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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819564221
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Thieves of Paradise written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection centers on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier, experiences that reverberate through the "Quatrains for Ishi," a personal address to the sole survivor of an ancient race, and "The Glass Ark," a conversation between male and female paleontologists working in the glass observation room at La Brea Tar Pits.

The Portable Sixties Reader

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Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142001943
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Sixties Reader written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women’s movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, “Elegies for the Sixties,” offers tributes to ten figures whose lives—and deaths—captured the spirit of the decade. Contributors include: Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O’Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Dien Cai Dau

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Author : Harry Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480242180
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Dien Cai Dau written by Harry Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Traveler, accomplished musician, artist and writer. If you asked Harry Stephenson what he considers his greatest title, he would tell you it is being one of the brave Americans who has served his country in the armed forces. Stephenson traveled to Vietnam in 1968 and served in the Air Force as an Aircraft Radio Technician. Always one to see beyond the surface, Stephenson found that, even in the midst of war and political turmoil, there was both humor and humanity, kindness and respect, pranksters and brothers to be found. The very things that he enlisted to protect. Dien Cai Dau is unlike any other book you can read about the personal experiences of the people we are indebted to for their protection of American freedom and happiness.

Visiting Hours at the Color Line

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Author : Edward Michael Pavlić
Publisher : National Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9781571314604
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Hours at the Color Line written by Edward Michael Pavlić and published by National Poetry. This book was released on 2013 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized, racially divided "Color Line." But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American civilization? Where is the Color Line in the mind, in the body, between bodies, between human beings? Ed Pavlic's Visiting Hours at the Color Line, a 2012 National Poetry Series winner, attempts to complicate this black-and-white, straight-line feature of our collective imagination, and to map its nonlinear, deeply colored timbres and hues. From the daring prose poem to the powerful free verse, Pavlic's lines are musically infused, bearing tones of soul, R&B, and jazz. Meanwhile, joining the influence of James Baldwin with a postmodern consciousness the likes of Samuel Beckett, Pavlic tracks the experiences of American characters through situations both mundane and momentous, and exposes the many textures of this social, historical world as it seeps into the private dimensions of our lives. The resulting poems are intense—at times even violent—ambitious, and psychological, making Visiting Hours at the Color Line a poetic tour de force, by one of the century's most acclaimed American poets.

Interrogations

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Author : Leroy Quintana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogations written by Leroy Quintana and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in Interrogations have been given genuine depth, and in a few succinct lines they emerge as sharply defined human beings, not as caricatures. --John Forrest Glave, American Book Review.