The Last Incantations Poems by DavidMura Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2014 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5237-3, ISBN: 0-8101-5237-1
"The personal, historical, and artistic are all in dialogue in David Mura's daring new 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 Asia ..."
Turning Japanese(Reprint) Memoirs of a Sansei by DavidMura Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4239-9, ISBN: 0-8021-4239-7
"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 ..."
We Are Meant to Rise Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (Paperback or Softback) by Carolyn Holbrook, DavidMura Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Minnesota Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1221-5, ISBN: 1-5179-1221-0
"A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear ..."
A Stranger's Journey Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing by DavidMura Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5346-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5346-9
"Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger’s Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir. His essay ..."
Angels for the Burning (American Poets Continuum) by DavidMura Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 2004 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-929918-58-4, ISBN: 1-929918-58-5
"In Angels for the Burning, David Mura examines the experience of contemporary Asian-Americans and the various aspects of familial history between first-, second-, and third-generation Japanese-Americans. Mura believes one of poetry’s tasks is to explore the challenges to our identities as we encounter various “others” and other visions of ourselves and our world. Mura’s new collection of poems attempts to accomplish this task.David Mura ..."
Where the Body Meets Memory(Reprint) An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity by DavidMura Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-385-47184-8, ISBN: 0-385-47184-X
"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(1st Edition) Poems by DavidMura Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1994 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-47461-0, ISBN: 0-385-47461-X
"The poetry of David Mura has been praised for its verbal music, its contradictions of rage and reconciliation, and its curious sense of hope in a world riven by racial and cultural differences. Of his first book, After We Lost Our Way, Amy Clampitt said, "The range and force of his evocative gift are counterbalanced by a quick intelligence and a redemptive and surprising tenderness." In The Colors of Desire, his second book of poems, Mu ..."
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself Racial Myths and Our American Narratives (Paperback) by DavidMura Paperback, Published 2023 by University Of Minnesota Press, Minnesota ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1454-7, ISBN: 1-5179-1454-X
A Stranger's Journey Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing (Hardback) by DavidMura 272 Pages, Published 2018 by The University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5368-5, ISBN: 0-8203-5368-X
"The book's second central question involves structure: How does one tell a story? Mura provides clear, insightful narrative tools that any writer may use, taking in techniques from fiction, screenplays, playwriting, and myth."
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 ..."
"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 ..."
"“There is no writer that dives deeper (or more bravely) into the chasm that is the human heart. [David Mura’s] first novel is a tour de force: luminously written and by turns crafty, tough, wise, and joyful.”âJunot DÃazBen Ohara is the sole surviving member his family. A troubled and brilliant astrophysicist, Ben’s younger brother has mysteriously vanished in the Mojave Desert. His father, one of a small group of WWII draft resisters ..."
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
After We Lost Our Way(1st Edition) (The National Poetry Series) by DavidMura Paperback, 81 Pages, Published 1989 by Plume ISBN-13: 978-0-525-48483-7, ISBN: 0-525-48483-3
"Poems explore the author's feelings and observations as a third generation Japanese-American, while discussing the killing fields of Asia, inner-city hospitals in North America, and the internment camps of World War II"
""Gendered & Written is a vibrant collection of voices - a dialogic, adventurous, and, at times, deeply personal textual event committed to parsing embodied language as collaborative practice. This is a vital interrogation of gender alongside form and offers to its readers stimulating approaches to the poetics of the body."
-DR. YETTA HOWARD"
After We Lost Our Way (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by DavidMura Paperback, 81 Pages, Published 1997 by Carnegie-Mellon University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-268-7, ISBN: 0-88748-268-6
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 Male Grief(1st Edition) Notes on Pornography and Addiction - An Essay by DavidMura Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 1987 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-915943-27-2, ISBN: 0-915943-27-1
"Through examining the relationship between child abuse, addictive family systems, and the adult male's consumption of pornography, this classic essay argues elegantly that this addiction to pornography is self-destructive, joyless, and unsatisfiable, a symptom of a consumer society rather than a natural urge. David Mura's classic monograph won the Milkweed Non-Fiction award when it was first published. Mr. Mura went on to receive a NEA ..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
A Stranger's Journey Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing by DavidMura 272 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5345-6, ISBN: 0-8203-5345-0
"In Learning to Be White: Money, Race, and God in America, theologian and
college professor Thandeka starts by giving accounts by white people ... A white
staff member asked Thandeka what it was like to be black and work at their
institution."