{"product_id":"some-girls-walk-into-the-country-they-are-from-9781950268115","title":"Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are from","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Sawako Nakayasu's first poetry collection in seven years, an unsettling diaspora of \"girls\" is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo-slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in response to Nakayasu's 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing literary convention. The book radicalizes notions of \"translation\" as both process and product, running a kind of linguistic interference that is intimate, feminist, and playfully jagged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation - separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include \u003cem\u003eSome Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming, Wave Books), \u003cem\u003ePink Waves \u003c\/em\u003e(forthcoming, Omnidawn), \u003cem\u003eThe Ants\u003c\/em\u003e (Les Figues Press), and the translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa\u003c\/em\u003e (Canarium Books), as well as \u003cem\u003eMouth: Eats Color - Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, \u0026amp; Originals\u003c\/em\u003e (reprint forthcoming, Wave Books), a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry. She is co-editor, with Eric Selland, of an anthology of 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century Japanese Poetry (forthcoming, New Directions). She teaches at Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437246681362,"sku":"9781950268115","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_644305bb-d3d5-4f9c-b555-3082b6f7a321.jpg?v=1729641995","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/some-girls-walk-into-the-country-they-are-from-9781950268115","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}