Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From

Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are FromBy Sawako Nakayasu Description Reviews Finalist for the Big Other Award in Poetry In Sawako Nakayasus rst 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 Nakayasus 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to

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interwoven with the perspective of the artist

The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense

sensitized to the metonymic relations between phrases

post-second-wave New York School yet retaining that group’s hallmark East Village sensibility

make cameo appearances—including

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Rohrer’s The Others engages similar questions of readerly participation and

this book boldly approaches personal trauma and memory in order to better understand the present

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Jarnot examines what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition

Nguyen wants to touch a nerve but not always by way of explicit meaning