Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

I really enjoyed the poems early in the book - about growing up in the South and his family and his VietNam experiences. His jazz poems were technically brilliant, but the subject matter was less appealing and outside my experience; I found them difficult to relate to.

Neon Vernacular is a prose war poetry collection that has a dark luminosity to it- a weaving of almost two distinct cultures, each borrowing from the next as though strange passenger- Yusef Komunyakaa is an award winning author/ poet- the television effusions; summon the pubis of more harrowing times, such as the Vietnam War, a book steeped in meditation, travail and phantom- we are questioning the prognosis of what death answers us in the deep recess of memory recall.