Dien Cai Dau

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DiENCAIDAU Also by Yusef Komunyakaa Dedications & Other Darkhorses Lost in the Bonewheel Factory Copacetic I Apologizefor theEyes inMy Head Toys in a Field February in Sydney Magic City Neon Vernacular Thieves of Paradise Blue Notes Talking Dirty to the Gods Pleasure Dome D I E N C A I D A U Yusef Komunyakaa WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut Published by Wesleyan University Press Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress Copyright © 1988 by Yusef Komunyakaa All rightsreserved Printed in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 ii 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 theDarkness: "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. L I B R A R Y OF C O N G R E S S CATALO G I N G - I N - PUB LI CATI O N DATA Komunyakaa, Yusef. Dien Cai Dau. i. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975—Poetry. I. Tide. PS356I.0455D5 1988 8ll'.54 88-5761 ISBN 0-8I95-2I63-9 ISBN 0-8195-1164-1 (pbk.) for my brother Glenn who saw The Nam before I did This page intentionally left blank ...