Pink Waves Iduna Paalman

Pink Waves Iduna PaalmanSawako 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

who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world

and subversions in "traditional" Chinese forms

a golden young man

The Prime Minister

unassuming to look at but potent with magic: 'a hindrance open

voices leaking through walls and borders

Is it a meditation on its titular object like Keats's "Urn" or a radical investigation of the limits of language as a signifying system

reproductions of Gozo’s artworks

and which Esther Allen has called 'surreal

The Colour (La Couleur) was composed in 1973-4 for a catalogue of Bram van Velde lithographs

published to acclaim in 2021

A reading from the book is available online here