Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.
| TITLE | : | Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.57 (895 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0819512117 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 188 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1993-03-15 |
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An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.
Editorial : In addition to 12 moving new poems, Neon Vernacular (winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) samples broadly from Yusef Komunyakaa's acclaimed collections Dien Cai Dau, Copacetic, and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. Poems from Komunyakaa's earlier books show that while his style has evolved from a soul-bare blues to an intellectually syncopated jazz, his core obsessions remain. His poems provide gritty testimony of the Vietnam War, a history of community and loneliness in African America, and, elusively, a complex document of human consciousness. Like his predecessor in this uncertain territory, Robert Hayden--who asked, "What did I know, what did I know/ of love's austere and lonely offices"--Komunyakaa's speakers are constantly being attacked by doubt, as in "Black String of Days:" Tonight I feel the stars are out
to use me for target practic
Here's how we figure it out from Bayes theorem.
If the cab was blue, a 15% chance, and correctly identified, an 80% chance, the combined probability is .15 * .8 = .12, a 12% chance
If the cab was green, an 85% chance, and incorrectly identified, a 20% chance, the combined probability is .85 * .2 = .17, a 17% chance
Since the cab had to be either blue or green, the total probability of it being identified as blue, whether right or wrong, is .12 + .17 = .29. When I bought this book, I was in such a down mental state that I was pinning quite a bit of hope on its subtitle being possible. The quality car (and football team) will follow:
Bill Walsh on the Standard of Performance:
* Culture precedes positive results. We make judgments on the basis of the knowledge we have, and we are overconfident about the predictive value of that observation. Each page has a goo
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