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Collection
WGBH
Series
WGBH Forum Network
Program
Yusef Komunyakaa Reads "Facing It"
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-416sx6485m
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Yusef Komunyakaa reads his poem "Facing It" about seeing the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. through his eyes as a war veteran and contemporary poet.
Date
2009-04-01
Topics
Literature
Subjects
Culture & Identity; Literature & Philosophy
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:17
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Credits
Speaker2: Komunyakaa, Yusef
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 617fa156e51fffa2b5da7400a39ffc6f006d9333 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Duration: 00:01:11
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Chicago: “WGBH; WGBH Forum Network; Yusef Komunyakaa Reads "Facing It",” 2009-04-01, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 17, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-416sx6485m.
MLA: “WGBH; WGBH Forum Network; Yusef Komunyakaa Reads "Facing It".” 2009-04-01. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 17, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-416sx6485m>.
APA: WGBH; WGBH Forum Network; Yusef Komunyakaa Reads "Facing It". Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-416sx6485m