So We Have Been Given Time Or (Paperback)

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Inventive, quirky, daring, and intelligent. Nakayasu has a generous and novel approach to meaning. -- Laura Wright, American Book Review

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Nakayasu's book-length poem uses its tumbling dramatic form to create a new inquiry into "character," "time," "place," "direction " and other elements. Lyrical language and personal, engaging voices take the reader on a dizzying and affecting journey through a "geography of risk." This wholly original work brings poetry into regions hitherto explored only by the most experimental forms of music and plastic arts.

Sawako Nakayasu was born in Yokohama, Japan, and has lived in the US since the age of six. Her previous pubications include Clutch (Tinfish, 2002), Balconic (Duration, 2003), and Nothing fictional but accuracy or arrangement (she (Faux, 2003), and she edits the press Factorial. In 2003 she received the US-Japan Creative Artists' Program Fellowship from the NEA.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Wave Books (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974635308
• ISBN-13: 978-0974635309
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,866,526 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "on it rolling around a tight space of mouth", December 14, 2004

By	J. Nakagawa (Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

recurring.
feels like.
falls in love here at almost every 4pm.
falls in love at every long hour.

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of a real city.
at a real city.
real mass of a city.
breaking everywhere.
ask the cathedrals.

So we have been given time or is one long poem of hysteria/pathos/isolation in search of connection/disappointment. I recommend this book, and the magazines edited by the author (One Factorial, Two Factorial....) to those interested in current innovative experimental English poetry / "false duration/laughter automatic".
--Jane Joritz-Nakagawa