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Yusef Komunyakaa. Dien Cai Dau . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
Yusef Komunyakaa. Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
The Poetry Archive. "Yusef Komunyakaa." The Poetry Archive . 5 Apr. 2007. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://poetryarchive.org/poet/yusef-komunyakaa/ >.
Weber, Bruce. "A Poet's Values: It's the Words Over the Man." The New York Times . 2 May 1994. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/02/books/a-poet-s-values-it-s-the-words-over-the-man.html?pagewanted=all >.
McEwen, Christian. "Interview With Yusef Komunyakaa: The Singing Underneath." Teachers and Writers Magazine . 19 Jan. 2015. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://teachersandwritersmagazine.org/the-singing-underneath-878.htm >.
Isokawa, Dana. "An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa." Washington Square Review . Spring 2014. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/yusef-k >.
Alleyne, Lauren K.. "The Complexity of Being Human: An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa." The Fight & The Fiddle . 1 May 2018. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://fightandfiddle.com/2018/05/01/the-complexity-of-being-human-an-interview-with-yusef-komunyakaa/ >.
Komunyakaa, Yusef. "On Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods—and My Own Return to Vietnam." GQ . 13 Jul. 2020. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://www.gq.com/story/yusef-komunyakaa-on-spike-lee-and-vietnam >.
Americal Legacy Foundation. "Americal Division News Sheets." Americal Legacy Foundation . 15 Apr. 2021. <https://americalfoundation.org/cmsalf/americal-history/vietnam-war/33-americal-divsion-in-country-news-sheets.html >.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. "About the Wall." Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund . 15 Apr. 2021. <https://www.vvmf.org/About-The-Wall/ >.
Klein, Christopher. "The Remarkable Story of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Biography . 10 Nov. 2015. 15 Apr. 2021. <https://www.biography.com/news/maya-lin-vietnam-veterans-memorial#:~:text=Adhering%20to%20the%20competition%20rules,in%20a%20V%2Dshaped%20wall >.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. "Andrew Johnson (The Wall of Faces)." Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund . 15 Apr. 2021. <https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/25966/ANDREW-JOHNSON/ >.
Gotera, Vicente F. "“Lines of Tempered Steel": An Interview With Yusef Komunyakaa." Callaloo, vol. 13, no. 2 . 1990. 23 Apr. 2021. <www.jstor.org/stable/2931676 >.
Andrew R. Chow and Josiah Bates. "As Da 5 Bloods Hits Netflix, Black Vietnam Veterans Recall the Real Injustices They Faced During and After the War." Time . 12 June 2020. 24 Apr. 2021. <https://time.com/5852476/da-5-bloods-black-vietnam-veterans/ >.
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