Dura - by Myung Mi Kim (Paperback)

About the Book

The 10th anniversary edition of this classic of Asian America and experimental poetry features a Preface by Juliana Spahr and an Afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn.

Book Synopsis

The politics and poetics of language, culture and self all collide in Myung Mi Kim s Dura, a contemporary classic of Asian American and experimental literature, brought back into print by Nightboat Books on the tenth anniversary of its orginal publication. This edition features a preface by Juliana Spahr and an afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn.

Review Quotes

With the small press titles Under Flag (1992) and The Bounty (1996) Kim astonished readers in the know with passionate, formally investigative cataloguings of colonialism, war and rampant capital in the domestic and public spheres. Building on the achievements of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Susan Howe, Kim continues here to engage the reader in re-witnessing this morally arid landscape.-- "Publisher's Weekly"

About the Author

Myung Mi Kim's other poetry collections include Commons, The Bounty, and Under Flag. She is currently a Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Stephen Hong Sohn is assistant professor of English at Stanford University. Juliana Spahr s books include The Transformation and This Connection of Everything with Lungs. She teaches at Mills College.