Pink Waves [Paperback]

A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance.
 
Written in loose sonata form,Pink Wavesis a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest. Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss, and along the edges of darkness and sadness,Pink Waveswas completed in the presence of audience members over the course of a three-day durational performance. Sawako Nakayasu accrues lines written in conversation withWaveformby Amber DiPietro and Denise Leto, and micro-translations of syntax in theBlack Dada Readerby Adam Pendleton, itself drawn from Ron Silliman’sKetjak.Pink Wavesholds an amalgamation of texts, constructing a shimmering haunting of tenderness, hunger, and detritus.
 Sawako Nakayasuis an artist working with language, performance, and translation. She has lived mostly in the United States and Japan and briefly in France and China. Her books include Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From,The Ants, andTexture Notes, and she is the translator ofThe Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa. She teaches at Brown University.