Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto
Subtitle: poetry and identity
By: David Mura.
Series: Poets on poetry
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Mura, David -- Interviews.; Mura, David -- Aesthetics.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Japanese American authors -- Interviews.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Poetry -- Authorship.; Poetry.
Genres: Interviews.
Table of contents: title: From banana to basho, or, How one Japanese American writer learned not to write like John O'Hara; title: Multiculturalism : living in the world (whose world?); title: Difficulties of the moment : Weil, Milosz, and Bakhtin; title: On poetry and politics : Brecht, Rich, and C.K. Williams; title: Splitting open the tradition : on Derek Walcott's XXIII; title: The margins at the center, the center at the margins : Asian American poetry; title: Dim sum poetics; title: An argument : on 1942 (an interview with Daniel Kane); title: A multiplicity of voices (an interview with Lee Rossi); title: The colors of desire (an interview with William Walsh); title: A note from Caliban : on Harold Bloom's introduction to The best of the best American poetry, 1988-1997; title: Where we've been, where we're going.