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Yusef Komunyakaa

A fragile prophecy

by Keith Taylor

posted 10/21/2010

Yusef Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Neon Vernacular, a collection of "new and selected poems" that included the work that had established his reputation as a master of several themes. Perhaps he was best known for his book of Vietnam poems, Dien Cai Dau (I'm told the phrase means "crazy" and was used by some Vietnamese to identify American GIs in

 
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