2012-10-25

Reading


"[W]hen we are dealing with things like racism or identity as forged by race and ethnicity, we're not allowed room to feel more than one emotion. We can't feel disgust AND delight. We can't take something seriously and joke about it without one reaction canceling out or beating the snot out of the other. And that shit is alienating."

~Jenny Zhang, via Coldfront


Or, having a woman's body. or being the encapsulated cells of impression. or being the shape of tables stacked on other tables, the correct perspective being the one where nothing slides.

2012-10-19

New World Translations



Puromunaado2



Season is glove is movement
           
            report (oh!)  wait       flowers—

faaaddddiiinnnng

afternoon                                 3ohclock
                        not even brown, gray
                                                   (let you in?...)


[eye]<--hehe, love         is

probably not a bug or an eyelid

also not a promise       given this abundant treasure


Chika Sagawa (1911-1935), Japan
(anti)-translated by Sawako Nakayasu, 2011
“translated” by Sarah Cook, 2012 



(via New World Poetry)