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Good. 0525484833. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged. Ex-owner name clipped from first page. Cover has only minor wear.; The National Poetry Series; 7.9 X 5.6 X 0.3 inches.
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Very Good. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997. Signed, inscribed by David Mura on title page. Stated First Edition. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. NOT an ex-library copy, NO remainder mark. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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81 pages. Winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With the publisher's 2-page press release laid in.
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David Mura's poem, "A Nisei Picnic: From An Album," expresses the central dilemma of the Nisei (second-generation Japanese American), whose lives were bound by racism, and familial and community pressures: "Here is my uncle, a rice ball in his mouth, / a picnic basket (ants crawl in the slats) at his side. / Eventually he ballooned like Buddha, / over three hundred pounds. I used to stroke / his immense belly, which was scarred by shrapnel. / It made me feel patriotic. / Once, all night, he lay in a ditch near the Danube, / shoved in his intestines with his hands. / When he came back, he couldn't rent an apartment. / "Shikatta gan nai," he said. Can't be helped."
In After We Lost Our Way, the poet tackles extremities of experience, whether working in the narrative or confessional mode, or employing personae to give utterance to the victims of history. What is impressive is Mura's essential sympathy for the voiceless, those thought to be, in Walter Benjamin's words, "lost for history"--the internee, the immigrant, the rape victim. But Mura also tests the limits of the reader's compassion by extending his sympathy to his "yankee" New England grandfather-in-law who disapproves of the poet's marriage or the black South African informer, whom a crowd rings with tires and sets ablaze. By blurring the distinction between victim and victimizer, the poet compels the reader to wrestle with moral ambiguities.
