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 Bruna Mori is the author of Dérive (Meritage Press), a book of cityscape poems with sumi-ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, and the chapbooks Tergiversation (Ahadada Books) and The Approximations (2nd Avenue Poetry), homophonic and sensorial translations of the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik.
Her writing has been published in journals Fence, Trepan (California Institute of the Arts), and ZYZZYVA, among others, and presented at venues such as Beyond Baroque, City Lights, and The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
She writes essays—most recently for a Semiotext[e] anthology on Isamu Noguchi's designs for Poston (the internment camp where he was incarcerated). Her articles on artists and writers, such as John Zorn, le thi diem thuy, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, appear in disinfo, Random House Bold Type, and other magazines and anthologies.
Additionally, she has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of institutional clients for over ten years, increasingly collaborating with individual designers. With Joseph Santarromana, she co-edited suture, a DVD that features segments by such artists as Catherine Lord, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Linda Montano, and Sheree Rose.
Bruna Mori was born in Japan, and has lived mostly in the United States—in New York, Louisiana, and California. Her BA and MFA degrees were completed at the University of California, San Diego, and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where she studied poetics with Ann Lauterbach and Lynne Tillman. Mori presently lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at Art Center College of Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
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- Poems and Essays American Poets of the 21st Century, dictionary of literary biography (Bruccoli Clark and Layman, Columbia, SC; 2004)
- The Approximations, a chapbook (2nd Avenue Poetry; publication date: 2006)
- Aught (NYC; 2005)
- Asian American Studies Encyclopedia (Misericordia; NJ, 2004)
- Asian Pacific American Journal (NYC; 2002)
- At Random (Random House, NYC; 1999)
- Australian Multicultural Review (Papyrus Press, Australia; 1998)
- Bamboo Girl (NYC; 2000)
- Bamboo Ridge (Bamboo Ridge Press, Honolulu; 2000)
- Bold Type (Random House, NYC; 1999)
- Boog City (Boog Literature, NYC; 2003)
- Brooklyn Review (Brooklyn College, Brooklyn; 1999)
- Dérive, a book of poems and accompanying sumi-ink paintings (Meritage Press, San Francisco; publication date: 2006)
- dIS?orient (Asiarema/UCLA, L.A.; 1997)
- Encyclopedia of American Poetry (Greenwood, NJ; 2004)
- Fence (NYC; 2004)
- 5_trope (2004)
- Fourteen Hills Literary Review (San Francisco State University; 2002)
- Guava (Brooklyn; 1998-99)
- Hyphen Lit (Hyphen Magazine, San Francisco; 2003)
- Indefinite Space (Pasadena, CA; 2001)
- International Poetry Review (Greensboro, NC; 2001)
- Into the Teeth of the Wind (University of California, Santa Barbara; 2002)
- Log (New York; 2005)
- moria poetry (2004)
- The New Review (Otis; 2005)
- Poetry Motel (Duluth; 2001)
- Octopus (Brooklyn; 2005)
- Poetry Salzburg Review (University of Salzburg, Austria; 2004)
- Puerto del Sol (New Mexico State University; 2002)
- Rain Taxi (Minneapolis; 1999)
- The Security Environment (Semiotext[e]), 2005)
- Shampoo Poetry (San Francisco; 2003)
- Southern California Quarterly (California State Poetry Society, Irvine, CA; 2004)
- Spawn (Brooklyn; 2000)
- Suyama Space ("Finding A-Way" for John O'Brien's Dis-Place in Time catalog; 2005)
- Tamarind (NYC; 1998)
- Ten (AAWW, NYC; 1998-99)
- 3rd bed (Brooklyn; 2004)
- Tergiversation, a chapbook (Ahadada Books; publication date: 2006)
- Trepan (California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; 2002)
- Tribes Magazine (Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, NYC; 2001)
- Women in Literature and Letters (WILL, NYC;
- 2001)
- "From the Side," a matchbook poem (Loudmouth Collective, Brooklyn; 2001)
- ZYZZYVA (San Francisco; 2002)
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What Others Say
About Tergiversation
Bruna Mori's spare couplets are both Augustan and surreal, aimed where utterance and text meet; when "lation" starts to trans, simu, or re; because versification gives back and also co-opts meaning. †Smartly matched: reading's duel is figured in the poetic and the text."
—Catherine Daly
"Bruna Mori has put her ear to the door of the past, listened intently and brought bits of that world to this one . . . Pizarnik sings her questions to the void, never expecting to be heard. As if in answer, Mori listens, and like Pizarnik cleanly ‘record(s) the roughness’ of an interior life."
—Jennifer Tseng
About Dérive
“Mori is not only a cogent observer of life and its environs but a magnanimous participant who shines a light on the profound beauty of no-name pizza parlors and sweaty flesh that bears green tattoos of the heart.”
—Martine Bellen
“Dérive is an animated guidebook to the boroughs of my city and should be required reading for travelers and residents alike.”
—Brenda Coultas
“Much to admire. In the range of experiences detailed and the ever-shifting vantage point, the city and its inhabitants emerge as vastly various and yet inextricably bound to one another.”
—lê thi diem thúy
“A deft poetic journey through the fissures and ironies of city life.”
—Norman M. Klein
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