Poetry. Nakayasu's book-length poem, winner of the 2003 Verse Prize selected by Ann Lauterbach, uses its tumbling dramatic form to create a new inquiry into "character", "time", "place", "direction," and other elements. This wholly original work delves into regions hitherto explored only by the most experimental forms of music and plastic arts.
About the Author
Sawako Nakayasu was born in Yokohama, Japan, and has lived mostly in the US since the age of six. Her hockey love poems have been collected in Clutch (Tinfish, 2002), and her on-line works include Balconic (Duration, 2003), and Nothing fictional but accuracy or arrangement (she (Faux, 2003). She edits Factorial, as well as the Translation section for HOW2. In 2003 she received the US-Japan Creative Artists' Program Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
