Sawako Nakayasu

May 21, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Lauren Goldenberg |Karen Phillips |Juan Vasquez |Juan Vásquez |Sawako Nakayasu

The Long Form is the debut novel by the award-winning writer and translator Kate Briggs. Published in 2023, it narrates a day in the life of a mother caring for her baby girl and trying to find time to read Tom Jones, and considers the relationship between what she and her child are doing, their experiences of time, and what it means to write fiction.

Apr 4, 2024 | therumpus.net | Sawako Nakayasu

Are met with three humans. The ants roll their eyes at the predictable questions of the humans: Are they making a pilgrimage? Are they three individual ants or part of a larger group? Have they arrived of their own accord or have they been placed there by external forces? Is that light reflecting off of their backs a consequence of our observational process, or something else, perhaps a symbol of their luminous potential to rescue us from the in-progress apocalypse?

Jan 9, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Sawako Nakayasu |Alexander Aguayo

In Memoriam: Keith WaldropPART ONEMOONThe errant translator begins with a scene from a Gertrude Stein play called Listen to Me:Scene IIThe moonNo dog barks at the moon. The moon shines and no dog barksNo not anywhere on this earth. Because everywhere anywhere there are lights many lights andso no dog knows that the moon is thereAnd so no dog barks at the moon now no not anywhere. The errant translator translates the no-longer-howling dog.

Jan 4, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Sawako Nakayasu

Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation, separately and in various combinations.... Her newest books include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award; Some Girls Walk into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020); and the pamphlet Say Translation Is Art (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020).