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Subject: VIETNAM
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1962: VETERANS' DAY: UCLA STUDY REGIMEN: SOME INDIANA (HOOSIER KLAN REFLECTIONS), by MICHAEL S. HARPER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are counting the names of the vietnam veterans names on the mall
Subject(s): Lin, Maya (b. 1959); Vietnam Veterans Memorial (washington, D.c.); African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


ACROSS THE FIELD OF THE OLD CORPORAL, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: That girl wears her hair in a chicken's tail
Last Line: We'll have dried fish, pumpkin, tasty chicken
Subject(s): Vietnam


ARRANGED MARRIAGE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother wanted the dowry of rice
Last Line: Like unmatched chopsticks, never equal
Subject(s): Vietnam


AS TOLD TO WALLACE TERRY, by THOMAS G. PALAIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wallace told us %he interviewed his soldiers
Last Line: Washington, d.C. %and vietnam
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Vietnam; Violence; War Correspondents


ASYLUM, by RICK CHRISTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The asylum was in the most hotly contested area of bien-hoa province
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers; Vietnam


AT THE EXILED KING'S RIVER PAVILION, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evening, and all around the king's pavilion
Last Line: To move these mountains and rivers, our nation?
Subject(s): Vietnam


AUTUMN, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn rains blow
Last Line: My lover stands where the bank is steep
Subject(s): Vietnam


AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves
Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


BARE ROCKS AND STARS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look at the sky and its stars scattered everywhere
Last Line: When love is not fated, love has no life
Subject(s): Vietnam


BODY IS PAIN, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the outpost now for three years
Last Line: In the well, one fish swims alone and free
Subject(s): Vietnam


CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam


CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a
Last Line: What does this have to do with cambodia?
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam


CARP, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stream rills softly. The carp
Last Line: My heart swells only for you
Subject(s): Vietnam


CAT, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The car shattered the casserole
Last Line: Head, wipes his whiskers, calling, 'meow'
Subject(s): Vietnam


CEMETERIES AT EAGLE BEACH (VIETNAM, 1971), by JIM FAIRHALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sometimes wander, after guard
Last Line: They believe in their country's %mission. They are as young as me
Subject(s): Death; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


CLEAR SKIES, CLEAR SEA, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Others plant for profit
Last Line: Clear skies, still sea, calm heart
Subject(s): Vietnam


COINS OF VAN-LICH, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Van-lich coins have four words
Last Line: When we pass, you hide your face
Subject(s): Vietnam


COLONIAL TROOPS TRANSPORT, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The troopship whistles once. I still waver
Last Line: Now the husband is north; the wife, south
Subject(s): Vietnam


COMPLAINING ABOUT THE SECOND WIFE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: A breeze stirs banana leaves behind the house
Last Line: How should I draw the water or rinse the rice?
Subject(s): Vietnam


CONCUBINE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: As second wife, I never liked the first
Last Line: Potatoes. Beans. Because my parents were poor
Subject(s): Vietnam


DIFFICULT LOVE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The french boats run in the new canal
Last Line: The fish in quynh pond, hard to catch
Subject(s): Vietnam


EGRET'S DEATH AND FUNERAL PREPARATIONS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Egret died the other night
Last Line: Bring back, slice fine, honor egret
Subject(s): Vietnam


EVENING, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each evening, I watch the clouds flying
Last Line: Of someone in white, red scarf on his shoulder
Subject(s): Vietnam


FIELD, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crows land like horses neighs
Last Line: Rain quiet as wings %on her back
Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Death; Fields; San Francisco; Vietnam


FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hazed with heat and harvest dust
Last Line: As the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them.
Subject(s): Death; Peasantry; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The


GIRL WITH THE BINH TIEN HAIRDO, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, that girl with the binh tien hairdo
Last Line: Mint leaves underneath and, on top, sardines
Subject(s): Vietnam


GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind's moods & resolutions %erase tendrils
Last Line: The idea %of the person who walks %on it %instants
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


GRAVITY, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring & timbre %of my own rhythms wild in grief
Last Line: A grainy strangeness takes %& I in the crowds %cross the street
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


GROTTO VINH HA LONG (BAY OF THE LANDING DRAGON) TONKIN GULF, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rower gaunt as his oar
Last Line: Stalagmite meeting stalactites coincidences %taking forever to form
Variant Title(s): Grott
Subject(s): Boats; San Francisco; Vietnam; Water


HARMONY IN THE KINGDOM, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the rice fields lie fallow
Last Line: We shake off the jacket of the dust of life
Subject(s): Vietnam


HER LIFE RUNS LIKE A RED SILK FLAG, by BRUCE WEIGL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because this evening miss hoang yen
Last Line: The lotus gatherers sailed out %among their resuming white blossoms
Subject(s): Vietnam


HO CHI MINH CITY, by DAVID WILLIAM ROMTVEDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have traveled far and around the world. Certain
Last Line: On my upturned face, my tongue stretched out ardently, aflame
Subject(s): Vietnam


HOMESICK BRIDE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wind sighs through the flame tree
Last Line: I take up my bowl. I put it back down
Subject(s): Vietnam


HUNGER, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chocolate breeze of calle mina: %oaxaca village of scorpions
Last Line: The shadows %nor the dire air
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


HUSBAND AND WIFE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oriole eats yellow berries
Last Line: Husband and wife know each other's smell
Subject(s): Vietnam


HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 1. VIETNAM, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow cleaves
Last Line: Bowl broken by his birth.
Subject(s): Children; Vietnam; Childhood


I KEPT SILENT, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I kept silent when I was tortured by my enemy
Last Line: Been stupid enough to open his mouth and ask for mercy?
Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam


IMPOSSIBLE TASKS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: See the sky? Two doves are chasing
Last Line: Sell off two old buffaloes. Then I'll marry you
Subject(s): Vietnam


IN SEARCH OF HISTORY, by RICHARD SHELTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go in search of history and find
Last Line: Fill the air with the heartbreak of history
Subject(s): History; Vietnam; War


KE-MO VILLAGE GIRL, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a mo village girl
Last Line: A torn shirt, when mended, will look like new
Subject(s): Vietnam


KIND-HEARTED AMERICANS ARE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The americans the way %they're so kindhearted
Subject(s): Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


KING STAR, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The king star trails nine lesser stars
Last Line: I loved you since your mother met your father
Subject(s): Vietnam


LAKE, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not in cramped houses %with censorious walls
Last Line: You gather from its incandescence %your world
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


LEAVING THE VILLAGE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even when cross planks are nailed down
Last Line: To the river for fish, to our sandy patch for melons
Subject(s): Vietnam


LETTERS, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She has become like her mother %her insides blooming
Last Line: The house too having read %them is preserved
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


LINKED VERSES, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind plays with the moon; the moon with the wind
Last Line: The milky way is shallow in places, in some places, deep
Subject(s): Vietnam


LONG BIEN BRIDGE, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seeing the long bien bridge %on a pastel
Last Line: The minute it comes you want %to escape
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


LOOKING OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking up at the sky
Last Line: Do you know that I love you?
Subject(s): Vietnam


LOVE LAMENT, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stepping into the field: sadness fills my deep heart
Last Line: Who made this shallow creek that parts both sides?
Subject(s): Vietnam


LULLABY, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little one, go to sleep. Sleep soundly
Last Line: So our parents' faces can widen in smiles
Subject(s): Vietnam


MANDARIN WHO COULDN'T DO ANYTHING, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each evening master lu sets his fish traps
Last Line: Master lu sits down and folds his arms
Subject(s): Vietnam


MILITEROTICS, by CHARLES ORTLEB    Poem Source                    
First Line: In vietnam %eels live in the water
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men; Vietnam; Violence


MODEL CHILDREN OF THE REGIME, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And they can kill %for a potato, a cassava root
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam - Communist Regime


MOTHER EGRET, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Egrets bear egret sons
Last Line: Brother eel dives. Mother flies off
Subject(s): Vietnam


MY LAI, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An embassy's tall gate off a dirt road
Last Line: Of their lives by what death holds apart.
Subject(s): Death; Massacres; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The


NEW VIET NAM, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweat of bolts & nails %muscle like steel & metal
Last Line: Then past the cemetery a mountain of crosses %which doesn't stop rising
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


OUTPOST SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here are only cliffs and crags
Last Line: I've lived in the forest for three years
Subject(s): Vietnam


PAINTING, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stream runs clear to its stones
Last Line: I will find you by this picture
Subject(s): Vietnam


PHOENIXES AND SPARROWS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phoenixes compete. So do sparrows
Last Line: I can use men who are loyal, if not elegant
Subject(s): Vietnam


POLE AT THE VILLAGE PAGODA, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lantern sways from the banner pole
Last Line: Wait for. Hope for. Remember. Love
Subject(s): Vietnam


RAVINE, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As they come
Last Line: You point %to your head
Subject(s): Bodies; Guns; San Francisco; Sleep; Vietnam


RED CLOTH, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sad, idle, I think of my dead mother
Last Line: Men of one country should love one another
Subject(s): Vietnam


REPLIES, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the long river, fish swim off without a trace
Last Line: Whoever has true love shall meet. But when?
Subject(s): Vietnam


SAIGON RIVER, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The saigon river slides past the old market
Last Line: Recalling my motherhome, stirring deep love
Subject(s): Vietnam


SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it
Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun
Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam


SHIP OF REDEMPTION, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bell of linh mu pagoda tolls
Last Line: A boat crosses to the western peace
Subject(s): Vietnam


SILENCE OF FORM, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind has little to do with this city, or this time
Last Line: In the sand carried by the burning silent wind
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


SINGER WITH A BAD VOICE, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing so dogs bark, oxen bolt
Last Line: So the old coot crawls out of his hut
Subject(s): Vietnam


SO MOUNTAIN, SELS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sad and lonely, I sew a bag that holds heaven
Last Line: Just one who is perfectly pretty, perfectly nice
Subject(s): Vietnam


SONG OF THE CICADAS, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knowing hunger %the fool doesn't starve %plans fall apart
Last Line: Stammering our tongues %knowing hunger
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


SOUNDING SA DEC, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shock of body against shock of land and sea
Last Line: In a syncopated instant %tangos before me
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


SUNDRY NOTES: 25, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The party holds you down and you lie still
Last Line: Two meals, oh for two meals!
Subject(s): Vietnam - Communist Regime


SUNDRY NOTES: 48, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The party's wrapped all dreams inside a shirt
Last Line: It stores away all dreams and men in jails
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam - Communist Regime


SURVIVORS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came up to her, strangers in the street
Last Line: Mirrors, for bargirls who ask no questions.
Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Vietnam; Dead, The


TALKING ABOUT BIRDS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen. Listen here, all about birds and beasts
Last Line: From far off, 'wash up. The journey's over'
Subject(s): Vietnam


TAO, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sad, I blame mister sky
Last Line: Fly with the pines, cool and lonely
Subject(s): Vietnam


TASTE, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of a sonata adrift %your blanket the moon the sun
Last Line: Love was something you invested %drawing your shadows on rock
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


TESTING CONFUCIAN OBLIGATIONS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: King. Father. Mother. Husband. Wife
Last Line: And with my hands, I'll save the boat'
Subject(s): Vietnam


THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O bright, o swift and bright
Last Line: Help it, I have so loved / this world
Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Vietnam; Far East; East Asia; Orient


THE CHAM TOWERS AT DA NANG, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God-faces that once glared at the sun
Last Line: Their great-grandparents could not recollect.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vietnam


THE CUBAN IN VIETNAM, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits in the dark of trees, hunched
Subject(s): Cuba; Vietnam; War


THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often
Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers


THINGS HUMAN, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He collects human teeth and bones %nails and hair
Last Line: Packets of stars %desiccated waiting for water
Subject(s): Mankind; San Francisco; Vietnam


THIS LAND'S NO JOY, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Only loudspeakers will spout joy
Subject(s): Vietnam - Communist Regime


TIME AND THE PERFUME RIVER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small buddhas smile above their blooms
Last Line: Along the curves of the perfume.
Subject(s): Death; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The


TINY BIRD, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tiny bird with red feathers
Last Line: Perhaps I must leave you
Subject(s): Vietnam


TOUR, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: An american's amazed, on his visit
Last Line: And emerged where their blinded fathers stood
Subject(s): Travel; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


TRAIN, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train snakes sai gon-south %groping to his seat
Last Line: From his blow %all over her back red embroidery %notice her eyes
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


TRAJECTORY, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this art %you may liken me to a line
Last Line: Of the poem %that has never been written
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


TRAVEL WITH JOY - GOODBYE TO JOY!, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Somewhere, a storm is running wild?
Subject(s): Vietnam - Communist Regime


TUNNELS, by KATHERINE HARER    Poem Source                    
First Line: American tourists are looking for new ways to spend their dollars. They
Last Line: Enlarge them, renovate history. This will be done
Subject(s): History; Tourists; Travel; Vietnam


TWILIGHT, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She drags her gangrened foot two miles back %over the loam pass
Last Line: I rise to walk in the wilderness %of the monkeys' rant
Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam


VENTURING OUT, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each evening, ducks paddle, egrets fly
Last Line: Go on, have a look at the sun's face, at the moon's
Subject(s): Vietnam


VIET NAM ON MY RETURN, by LE THI THAM VAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back, back again in viet nam
Last Line: I stand there aghast %staring at myself
Subject(s): Memory; Vietnam


VIETNAM, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: You become pen pals with a comvict
Last Line: Should have fought world war ii %and we should have gone to vietnam
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


VIETNAM, by SAMUEL HAZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not the monument, sad
Last Line: They defended separates %before them like a sea
Subject(s): Memory; Vietnam


VIETNAM, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought a pair of ray bans from the devil
Last Line: And I'm still laughin
Subject(s): Vietnam


WHEN THE POLICY CHANGES, by DOAN VAN MINH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever the policy changes
Last Line: Don't bother about the time being %no matter what kind of life we are living now
Subject(s): Human Rights; Social Problems; Vietnam - Communist Regime


WHISKY LOVERS, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft winds circle the mountain head
Last Line: Unaware, a tippler stumbles off into a pond
Subject(s): Vietnam


WICKED WOMEN, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Girl, stop pretending tragedy
Last Line: Pinching her male when he's lost his shell
Subject(s): Vietnam


WOMAN'S HEART, by UNKNOWN+298    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trang tu's legendary wife is very much the modern woman
Last Line: But a woman's heart, though shallow, is hard to probe
Subject(s): Vietnam