Poetry in America with Elisa New You and I Are Disappearing - Yusef Komunyakaa (Season 2, Episode 6)
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TV Episode | 25 min

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Poetry in America with Elisa New

You and I Are Disappearing - Yusef Komunyakaa (Season 2, Episode 6)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 25 min

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa went to the Vietnam War as a journalist but came home a poet. This episode explores how things experienced during war can still burn in memory and on the page decades later. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, film ...See morePoet Yusef Komunyakaa went to the Vietnam War as a journalist but came home a poet. This episode explores how things experienced during war can still burn in memory and on the page decades later. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, film and theatre director Julie Taymor, composer Elliot Goldenthal, a chorus of Vietnam War veterans, and Komunyakaa himself discuss the awful mix of beauty and horror in war-and the challenge of making art from it. See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Leo Farley Self Self See fewer	Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)
Elliot Goldenthal Self Self See fewer	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Roger Harris Self Self See fewer	Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)
John Kerry Self Self See fewer	Cheers (1982)
Yusef Komunyakaa Self Self See fewer	The OA (2016)
Elisa New Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)
David Sandgrund Self Self See fewer	Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)
Julie Taymor Self Self See fewer	Frida (2002)
Westley Thomas Self Self See fewer	Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)