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. Inย 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.ย
โSo finely tuned are Komunyakaaโs images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recallsย .ย .ย . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.โ โBooklist