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title	:	Dien Cai Dau Wesleyan Poetry
author	:	Komunyakaa, Yusef.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0819511641
print isbn13	:	9780819511645
ebook isbn13	:	9780585371252
language	:	English
subject	Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Poetry.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	PS3561.O455D5 1988eb
ddc	:	811/.54
subject	:	Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Poetry.

Page i Dien Cai Dau

Page ii Also by Yusef Komunyakaa Dedications & Other Darkhorses Lost in the Bonewheel Factory Copacetic I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head Toys in a Field February in Sydney Magic City Neon Vernacular Thieves of Paradise

Page iii Dien Cai Dau Yusef Komunyakaa

Page iv WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England Hanover, NH 03755 Copyright 1988 by Yusef Komunyakaa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 WESLEYAN POETRY First printing, 1988 Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these poems first appeared: Alcatraz, The American Voice, AWP Newsletter, Caliban, Callaloo, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, The Louisiana Weekly, MSS, New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, The North American Review, Ploughshares, Shankpainter, Writers Forum. Some of these poems also appeared in a limited edition chapbook, Toys in a Field (Black River Press, 1986). Acknowledgment is also made to the following anthologies: The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets: "Somewhere Near Phu Bai," "Starlight Scope Myopia"; Carrying the Darkness: "After the Fall," ''The Dead at Quang Tri," "A Break from the Bush," "Boat People," "Somewhere Near Phu Bai"; The Made Thing: "We Never Know," "Saigon Bar Girls, 1975," "Facing It." I wish to thank the Louisiana Arts Commission for a fellowship that enabled me to complete this book. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Komunyakaa, Yusef. Dien Cai Dau. 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975Poetry. I. Title. PS3561.0455D5 1988 811'.54 88-5761 ISBN 0-8195-2163-9 ISBN 0-8195-1164-1 (pbk.)

Page v for my brother Glenn who saw The Nam before I did

Page vii Contents Camouflaging the Chimera 3 Tunnels 5 Somewhere Near Phu Bai 7 Starlight Scope Myopia 8 Red Pagoda 10 A Greenness Taller Than Gods 11 The Dead at Quang Tri 12 Hanoi Hannah 13 Roll Call 15 Fragging 16 "You and I Are Disappearing" 17 2527th Birthday of the Buddha 18 Re-creating the Scene 19 Night Muse & Mortar Round 21 One More Loss to Count 22 Sappers 24 Nude Pictures 25 We Never Know 26 A Break from the Bush 27 Seeing in the Dark 28 Tu Do Street 29 Communiqu 30 The Edge 32 Donut Dollies 34 Prisoners 35 Jungle Surrender 37 Eyeball Television 39 The One-legged Stool 40 Short-timer's Calendar 43 Thanks 44 To Have Danced with Death 46

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