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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Sawako Nakayasu : Pink Waves
Description: Of Sawako Nakayasuâs many literary endeavorsâpoetry, translation, performance artâit is hard to know where one begins and another ends. They each seem to not only be talking to each other but Sawakoâs work also blurs the boundaries between them, nesting each within the next in a way that illuminates something about all three. Her latest poetry collection, Pink Waves, is a perfect example of this, poetry written within a durational performance, one that involves âmicrotranslationsâ of the syntax of the works of others. As Fred Moten says about Pink Waves: âIn a deliberate lyricism of regathering, t...