Nanao Sakaki - November 8, 1990

Reader
Date
Sponsors

UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
UA Poetry Center
Nanao Sakaki

Nanao Sakaki performs poems and songs in the courtyard of the Poetry Center on Cherry Avenue. Asking the audience, "Any questions? I'll answer by my poems," Sakaki addresses themes raised by audience members such as anger, feeling at home, time, walking, and love for the desert and all forms of life.

Tracks
Track Title
Welcome
Reader
Description

by Alison Hawthorne Deming

View Track
Track Title
Introduction
Reader
Description

by Peter Warshall

View Track
Track Title
"Happy Lucky Idiot"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Urgent Telegram"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Let's Eat Stars"
Reader
Description

In response to an audience member who asked for a poem about anger.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Daylight Moon"
Reader
Description

In response to a partially inaudible question about rattlesnakes shedding their skin.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"If I Have Tomorrow"
Reader
Description

In response to an audience member who asked "What's it like where you're from: your home?" Differs from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Twilight Man"
Reader
Description

In response to an audience member who called out, "I have a sponge." Differs from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
Fisherman's song
Reader
Description

In response to an audience member who asked Sakaki to sing his favorite song.

View Track
Track Title
"Soil for Legs"
Reader
Description

Performed in English, Chinese, Czech, and Indonesian.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"North America"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Break the Mirror"
Reader
Description

In response to an audience member who asked about the poet's connection to human and biological history.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"A Song of Coral"
Reader
Description

Published version bears the title "A Dance of Coral." Differs substantially from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Prague"
Reader
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Travel Light"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Forevergreen"
Reader
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Summer Morning Song"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Grasshoppers"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Autumn Equinox 1980"
Reader
Description

Brief skip between 0:11 and 0:15.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"All's Right with the World"
Reader
Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"A Love Letter"
Reader
Description

In response to an audience member who asked for a poem about walking. Differs from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
19th-century Arapaho song
Reader
View Track
Track Title
9th-century Japanese song
Reader
View Track
Track Title
Fragment of a Japanese children's song about rain
Reader
Description

This song inspired Sakaki's poem "Come Come Rain."

View Track
Track Title
"Come Come Rain"
Reader
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Track Title
"Always"
Reader
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Sakaki, Nanao. How to Live On the Planet Earth: Collected Poems. Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2013.

View Track
Image
Nanao Sakaki
Photographer
Alison Hawthorne Deming
View Track

Poetry Center

1508 East Helen Street (at Vine Avenue)
Tucson, AZ 85721-0150 • MAP IT
PHONE 520-626-3765 | poetry@email.arizona.edu