Poetry In America

You and I Are Disappearing -- Yusef Komunyakaa

Directed by Elisa New
TV-PG
S2 • E6    May 9, 2020    30m
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 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.

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Cast of You and I Are Disappearing -- Yusef Komunyakaa

  • Leo FarleySelf
  • Elliot GoldenthalSelf
  • Roger HarrisSelf
  • John KerrySelf
  • Yusef KomunyakaaSelf
  • Elisa NewSelf - Host / Director / Writer / Executive Producer
  • David SandgrundSelf
  • Julie TaymorSelf
  • Westley ThomasSelf
  • Caitlin Ballotta RajagopalanAssociate Producer
  • Adam KosanAssociate Producer
  • Cathleen O'ConnellProducer
  • Leah Reis-DennisProducer
  • Peter RhodesEditor

 

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