When “Miss Saigon” first came to the Ordway Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992, David Mura published a piece in “Mother Jones” critiquing the musical’s racist undertones and the arguments he’d been having with his white artist friends about it.
The Asian American Literary Review launches
The first issue features writers David Mura, Ru Freeman, Alexander Chee, Cathy Song, Oliver de la Paz, Paisley Rekdal, April Naoko Heck, Mong-Lan,
Novel deals with suicide, abuse, and the legacy of being Japanese American
Working within the emotionally associative forms of poetry and memoir, award-winning poet David Mura has already created a body of work that tackles head-on complex issues such as sexual desire and addiction, race relations and the unspoken consequences of U.S. WWII internment camps on later generations of Japanese Americans.