Sawako Nakayasu: Grief Textures
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Sawako Nakayasu selects poems that confront griefs personal and national, told directly and obliquely. She introduces Timothy Liu documenting the atrocities of Japanese imperialism (\\u201cA Requiem for the Homeless Spirits\\u201d), Daniel Borzutzky\\u2019s translation of Raul Zurita witnessing to the brutal crimes of the Chilean dictatorship (\\u201cSong for His Disappeared Love\\u201d), and Keith Waldrop conjuring a grief-riddled dream landscape (\\u201cAn Apparatus\\u201d). Nakayasu closes with her own \\u201cAnt in a silvery tide,\\u201d a poem linked to a time of personal grief.
Find the full recordings of Liu, Borzutzky, and Waldrop reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Timothy Liu (February 20, 2014)
Daniel Borzutzky (January 10, 2019)
Keith Waldrop (with Rosmarie Waldrop, March 5, 2011)
You can also enjoy three recordings of Nakayasu reading for the Poetry Center in 2007, 2018, and 2023.