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The Last Incantations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810152373)
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xThe personal, historical, and artistic are all in dialogue in David Mura's daring collection, The Last Incantations. In a variety of poetic modes, Mura harmonizes and contrasts multiple voices to form a powerful meditation. Certain poems speak from his experiences as a third-generation Japanese American and his family's struggles to prove their "Americanness." Others speak from the intersections of our multiracial society--an Asian teenager in love with a Somali Muslim girl, an apostrophe to Richard Pryor, poems about a Palestinian American friend, Abu Ghraib, the hapa sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The result is a sustained multifoliate poetry, bursting with elegance, heartache, and truth.
Author: David Mura
ISBN-10: 0810152371
ISBN-13: 9780810152373
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2014
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.10w x 0.60d
By David Mura
xDavid Mura is a Japanese American poet, novelist, memoirist, and critic. His most recent book is his novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (2008). His poetry books are Angels for the Burning (2004); The Colors of Desire (1995), which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award; and After We Lost Our Way (1989), which won a National Poetry Series Contest. His Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (1991) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won PEN Oakland's Josephine Miles Book Award. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and Ploughshares.
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