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Sawako Nakayasu

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Contributor

Sawako Nakayasu

Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation, separately and in various combinations....

Her newest books include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award; Some Girls Walk into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020); and the pamphlet Say Translation Is Art (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020). Translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Modern Library, 2020), as well as Mouth: Eats Color—Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals (Rogue Factorial, 2011), a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry. Settle Her, which was written on the #1 bus line in Providence on Thanksgiving Day of 2017, on the occasion of her cutting ties with normative Thanksgiving celebrations, is forthcoming from Solid Objects.

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