Where the Body Meets Memory(1st Edition) by DavidMura Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-47183-1, ISBN: 0-385-47183-1
"In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In Where the Body Meets Memory, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race. Interweaving his own experience with that of his family and of other sansei-third generation Japanese Americans-Mura ..."
The Colors of Desire (poems) by DavidMura Hardcover, 105 Pages, Published 1995 by Anchor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-385-47460-3, ISBN: 0-385-47460-1
Poets on Poetry Ser. Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto : Poetry and Identity by David Alan Mura Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by The University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09776-0, ISBN: 0-472-09776-8
After We Lost Our Way(1st Edition) (The National poetry series) by DavidMura Hardcover, 81 Pages, Published 1989 by Dutton ISBN-13: 978-0-525-24758-6, ISBN: 0-525-24758-0
"A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range ..."
"Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic ..."