It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it. (Yusef Komunyakaa)

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

Yusef Komunyakaa

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