num_pages: 72
description: Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets.
language: English
title: Dien Cai Dau
titlecomplete: Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
genres: School, Poetry, African American, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, War, Adult, History
ratings_count: 839
publisher: Wesleyan University Press