Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From

In Sawako Nakayasu-s first 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 Nakayasu-s 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing literary convention. The book radicalizes notions of -translation- as both process and product, running a kind of linguistic interference that is intimate, feminist, and playfully jagged.