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 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.
- ISBN10 0810152371
- ISBN13 9780810152373
- Publish Date 30 March 2014
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 24 March 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88
- Language English