Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

Name: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780819512116

by Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Publisher:: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN:: 9780819512116
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 188
Authors:: Yusef Komunyakaa
Published Date:: 1993-04-30
Language:: English

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About Yusef Komunyakaa

Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Yusef Komunyakaa served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1970 as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross during the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star. He holds a BA from the University of Colorado Springs, an MA from Colorado State University, and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His collection Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977–1989 (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Other collections include Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan, 1988) and Talking Dirty to the Gods (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000). He is a distinguished senior poet at New York University.

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