DURAMyung Mi Kim The politics and poetics of language, culture and self all collide in Myung Mi Kims DURA, a contemporary classic of Asian American and experimental literature, brought back into print by Nightboat Books on the tenth anniversary of its original publication. 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.

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The poet places himself as a critic of established power systems

and a critical introduction by poet Mark Nowak

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” and cogitates on life—so furnished with all its illusions and ironies—in an age consistently defined by its constant decline

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