"Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest, in loose sonata form. It accrues lines written in conversation with Waveform by Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto, and microtranslations of syntax in "Black Dada" by Adam Pendleton, itself written via Ron Silliman's Ketjak. Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss, and the granular edges of dark, sad matter, Nakayasu completed the book in the presence of audience members in a three-day durational performance. Held within: a shimmering haunting of tenderness, hunger, and detritus. "We ate them.""--
A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance. Written in loose sonata form, Pink Waves is 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 Waves was completed in the presence of audience members over the course of a three-day durational performance. Sawako Nakayasu accrues lines written in conversation with Waveform by Amber DiPietro and Denise Leto, and micro-translations of syntax in the Black Dada Reader by Adam Pendleton, itself drawn from Ron Silliman’s Ketjak. Pink Waves holds an amalgamation of texts, constructing a shimmering haunting of tenderness, hunger, and detritus.