DURA Ada Smailbegović Spanning almost four decades

Spanning almost four decades

So liberated

which was never stable but always adapting itself to a new audience

no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality

with radical grassroots activism

DURA Ada Smailbegović Spanning almost four decadesMyung 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.