Critique of Yusef Komunyakaa's "Nude Interrogation"

The speaker in Yusef Komunyakaa's prose poem "Nude Interrogation" successfully creates a setting without explicitly telling readers that the action is set in the "interrogator's" bedroom following the speaker's return from Vietnam where he served as a U.S. soldier. He uses imagery to explain the context--Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix posters, a record player, her multi-colored miniskirt, and burning incense. In the introductory paragraphs to the chapter, Burroway writes, "[Any writer] will tell you that creating the sensuous particularity of a place and period is crucial to writing" (Burroway 133). Komunyakaa creates the particularity of the United States young adult culture during and immediately following the Vietnam War.