Teacher Guide

Facing It Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

For more works by Yusef Komunyakaa, please see: Dedications & Other Darkhorses (1977); Lost in the Bonewheel Factory (1979); Copacetic (1984); I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head (1986); Dien Cai Dau (1988); Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1994); Thieves of Paradise (1998); Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000); Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (2001); Warhorses (2008); The Chameleon Couch (2011); Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (2013); Emperor of Water Clocks (2015); and Everyday Mojo Songs of the Earth: New and Selected Poems (2021).

For more poetry with themes of the war in Vietnam, see works by: Leroy V. Quintana, W. D. Ehrhart, Lamont B. Steptoe, David...

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