Pink Waves

"Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest, in loose sonata form. It accrues lines written in conversation with Waveform by Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto, and microtranslations of syntax in "Black Dada" by Adam Pendleton, itself written via Ron Silliman's Ketjak. Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss, and the granular edges of dark, sad matter, Nakayasu completed the book in the presence of audience members in a three-day durational performance. Held within: a shimmering haunting of tenderness, hunger, and detritus. "We ate them."--

About the author

Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. She has lived mostly in the United States and Japan and briefly in France and China. Her books include Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From, The Ants, and Texture Notes, and she is the translator of The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa. She teaches at Brown University.

Product details

• Authors: Sawako Nakayasu
• Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781632430984
• ISBN: 978-1-63243-098-4
• No. of pages: 90
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies