sidra reviewed Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
Review of 'Dien Cai Dau' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Maybe I am a little biased towards poetry but god, this was so good. I've read Pleasure Dome so I've read this collection already but it was different coming back to this. I don't think I've read a lot of war poetry but Komunyakaa manages to evoke extremely sorrowful feelings. I love how 'camouflaging the chimera' is the first poem in this collection & it just makes you feel as if you're one of them.
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
The moon cuts through
night trees like a circular saw
white hot.
loving the weight of the shotgun
that will someday dig his grave.
Maybe I am a little biased towards poetry but god, this was so good. I've read Pleasure Dome so I've read this collection already but it was different coming back to this. I don't think I've read a lot of war poetry but Komunyakaa manages to evoke extremely sorrowful feelings. I love how 'camouflaging the chimera' is the first poem in this collection & it just makes you feel as if you're one of them.
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
The moon cuts through
night trees like a circular saw
white hot.
loving the weight of the shotgun
that will someday dig his grave.
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
The moon cuts through
night trees like a circular saw
white hot.
loving the weight of the shotgun
that will someday dig his grave.