Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: “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.”—Junot DíazBen Ohara is the sole surviving member his family...read more

A memoir of the author's journey to Japan, the country his grandfather left at the turn of the century, chronicles his quest for identity in the face of shame and cultural dislocation. Reprint.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: As a Sansei or third-generation Japanese American poet, David Mura is one of the generation of multicultural writers who are changing the face of American poetry. Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto explores shifts in and challenges to aesthetic standards that have come about because of a more diverse range of American writers and because of the growing awareness of world literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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

The author of Turning Japanese reflects on his experiences growing up as a Japanese American, including his parents' internment during World War II, and critically examines the connections between race and sexuality in America. Reprint. NYT.

The Japanese American author bares his soul in a cluster of erotic poems that illuminate his identity and race