WGBH; WGBH Forum Network; Yusef Komunyakaa Reads "Facing It"
- Transcript
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- Collection
- WGBH
- Series
- WGBH Forum Network
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-416sx6485m
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- Description
- Description
- 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
- Credits
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Speaker2: Komunyakaa, Yusef
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 617fa156e51fffa2b5da7400a39ffc6f006d9333 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Duration: 00:01:11
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- Citations
- 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