Pink Waves

Sawako Nakayasu

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.

'Nakayasu's Pink Waves is an experience of questions becoming artifacts. The speaker asks: 'how will i locate expansiveness in touch'? By 'dreamlight', a reader is trained, by this speaker, in a process of listening that's both a 'pledge of silence' and the recognition that 'we come to a limit and stop where it fits.' Is this 'genre trouble'? Nakayasu has written a book a writer could read, orienting to the desk, to the 'passing moment, ' in turn. This is grounding. This is beautiful.' – Bhanu Kapil