So We Have Been Given Time Or
by Sawako Nakayasu ISBN 0-9746353-0-8
publisher: Verse Press, Amherst, Massachusetts
publication: First edition 2004
softcover, 106pp, 139x203mm
$13.00
winner of: the 2003 Verse Prize, selected by Ann Lauterbach
Craig Watson (from back cover)
In the world of Sawako Nakayasu there's no distinction between poetry and theater, meditation and action, language and performance. To be alive is to be in motion; every thought/breath/word inalterably changes every other thing/person/time. We are made of verbs and whether the task is "blanking it up" or to "keep mouth full of time," we're always on stage in the theater of language and imagination. Don't read this book -- enact it.
Comment
Sawako Nakayasu was born in Yokohama and has lived mostly in the US since the age of six. In 2003 she received the US-Japan Creatve Artists' Program Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She edits Factorial as well as the translation section of HOW2.
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