Sawako Nakayasu - March 22, 2018

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Sawako Nakayasu

Sawako Nakayasu mixes her poetry and her translations, crafting a reading that she describes as a translation of the innovative form of her book Mouth: Eats Color (2011). She reads her own poems from The Ants (2014) and Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From (2020), a manuscript in progress that would be published two years after this reading. She also reads translations of poems by Japanese modernist Chika Sagawa from Mouth: Eats Color and Korean modernist Yi Sang, later published in Yi Sang: Selected Works (2020). 

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Track Title
Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Sarah Kortemeier

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Opening Remarks
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by Sawako Nakayasu

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"Girl B Has Brought a Giant Sheet with Her"
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Differs from published version, which bears the title "Girl B Has Brought a Giant Sheet with Them."

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Girls Rolling Themselves"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"From Crow's-eye View: Poem Number One"
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By Yi Sang.

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Uncollected.

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"Bright Sun in the Head of the Girls"
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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020, p. 41.

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"Girl B Has Brought a Giant Sheet with Her" (continued)
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Differs from published version, which bears the title "Girl B Has Brought a Giant Sheet with Them."

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Four Girls Pool Their Breasts Together"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Love"
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Nakayasu, Sawako. The Ants. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2014.

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"Ant Heart"
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Nakayasu, Sawako. The Ants. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2014.

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"We the Heathens"
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Nakayasu, Sawako. The Ants. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2014.

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"Backside"
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Nakayasu, Sawako with Chika Sagawa. Mouth: Eats Color: Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals. Tokyo: Rogue Factorial, 2011.

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"Untitled Poem (by Frances Chung)"
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Chung, Frances. "Untitled Poem." Mouth: Eats Color: Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals. Sawako Nakayasu with Chika Sagawa. Tokyo: Rogue Factorial, 2011.

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"Animal Magnetism (by Harry Crosby)"
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Crosby, Harry. "Animal Magnetism." Mouth: Eats Color: Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals. Sawako Nakayasu with Chika Sagawa. Tokyo: Rogue Factorial, 2011.

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"Waves"
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Nakayasu, Sawako with Chika Sagawa. Mouth: Eats Color: Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals. Tokyo: Rogue Factorial, 2011.

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"Afternoon"
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Nakayasu, Sawako with Chika Sagawa. Mouth: Eats Color: Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals. Tokyo: Rogue Factorial, 2011.

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"Abnormal Reversible Reaction"
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Continued in following track; differs from published version.

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Yi Sang. Yi Sang: Selected Works. Edited by Don Mee Choi; translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Abnormal Reversible Reaction" (continued)
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Continued from previous track; differs from published version.

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Yi Sang. Yi Sang: Selected Works. Edited by Don Mee Choi; translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Fragment Scenery"
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Differs from published version.

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Yi Sang. Yi Sang: Selected Works. Edited by Don Mee Choi; translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Bright Sun in the Head of the Girls" (translation no. 1)
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Differs from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020, p. 61-62.

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"Deflated Rubber Turkey"
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Differs from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"That Time When Girl F Walked into a Bubble Bath with All Her Clothes On"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Mountain Girls"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Cute"
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Uncollected.

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"In a Plastic Bag of Jell-O with Nine Other Girls"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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"Deflated Rubber Turkey" (translation no. 2)
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Uncollected.

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Question and Answer Session
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Sawako Nakayasu
Photographer
Becka Ranta
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