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Mason's poem "The Wall Within" was read at the 1984 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. [1] and has the distinction of being the only American work of poetry on display at the war memorial in Hanoi. The author of four books, his poetry related to his experiences as a captain in the United States Army during the ...
Facing It" is a poem by American poet and author Yusef Komunyakaa. It is a reflection on Komunyakaa's first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Komunyakaa served in Vietnam and was discharged from the Army in 1966, during which time he wrote for army newspaper Southern Cross. It is the second poem written by Komunyakaa about Vietnam. R. S.
More attention came with the publication of Dien Cai Dau (Vietnamese for "crazy in the head"), published in 1988, which focused on his experiences in Vietnam and won the Dark Room Poetry Prize. Included was the poem "Facing It", in which the speaker of the poems visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.: He's lost his right arm
Dennis Haskell, Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at University of Western Australia, [1] has called it "the most highly regarded poem about Vietnam written by any Australian", [2] and Peter Pierce, the editor of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature has described it as "one of the finest threnodies in the war ...
His first published work, a poem about his alma mater Swarthmore College, appeared seven years later in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the following year eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Exclusively a poet until he was almost 30, he has since written and published a wide ...
A three-quarters scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is coming to Spartanburg Nov. 9-12. It is called the 'Wall that Heals.' What to know.
A Needham, Massachusetts, veteran talks about why the Moving Wall, a replica of the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. which includes the 58,000 names of Americans killed in the war, is so important.
Jan Barry Crumb (January 26, 1943–) is an American poet, journalist, author, and activist. [1] A Vietnam veteran and former National Officer of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, [2] he resigned from West Point in 1964 "to become a writer and peace activist".