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“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
Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.
“Komunyakaa makes a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam —a poetry that pierces the artificial border between moral and aesthetic engagement.”—Poetry
“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.”—William Matthews
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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.
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