Pink Waves So Much For Life it is a skillful and

it is a skillful and intimate account of migration and exile

a swollen head on the box says thin-lipped

both familial and famous

tragic catastrophes of current black existence--London knife crime

translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Pink Waves So Much For Life it is a skillful andSawako Nakayasu Written in loose sonata form, Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest. Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss, and along the edges of darkness and sadness, Pink Waves was completed in the presence of audience members over the course of a three day durational performance. Sawako Nakayasu accrues lines written in conversation with Waveform by Amber DiPietro and Denise Leto, and micro translations of