Sawako Nakayasu - November 9, 2023

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American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), Poetry Center

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Poetry Center
Sawako Nakayasu

Sawako Nakayasu reads work stemming from her 2017 return to the United States from Japan and the challenges of being immersed again in the violence of American culture. She opens with several new ant poems before reading from Say Translation Is Art (2020), Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From (2020), Pink Waves (2023), and her forthcoming book Settle Her. This reading was presented in collaboration with the American Literary Translators Association and as part of the ALTA46 conference.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Lissie Jaquette

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Opening Remarks & "Three Ants Crawling the Surface of the Moon"
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Uncollected.

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"Ant as a Glass of Water"
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Nakayasu, Sawako. "Ant as a Glass of Water." MONKEY: New Writing from Japan, vol. 4, 2023, p. 133.

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"You Are the Grief Ant"
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Uncollected.

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"This Ant Is a Lead Pencil"
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Uncollected.

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Excerpt from Say Translation Is Art
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Differs from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Say Translation Is Art. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020, pp. 13-16.

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

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"Some Girls Fight Inside A Bag of Cheetos"
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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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

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Excerpt from Pink Waves
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Pink Waves. Oakland: Omnidawn, 2022, pp. 66-82.

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"That was the summer I returned to the country of guns…"
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Uncollected.

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