Books for Sawako Nakayasu Conversation
By Between the Covers Podcast
By Between the Covers Podcast
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
Chika Sagawa
$16.00We open our conversation with a long compare and contrast between this book and Mouth Eats Color (its rogue translation cousin)
Mouth: Eats Color -- Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals
Sawako Nakayasu and Chika Sagawa
$14.00 $13.02Sawako's durational translation project (done within one month)
Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are from
Sawako Nakayasu
$18.00 $16.74Her last book, with Wave Books, which we talk quite a lot about, includes the collaboration with 7 Asian women translators in very interesting ways
Adam Pendleton: Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
Adam Pendleton
$45.00 $41.85Sawako "microtranslates" the syntax of Pendleton's Black Dada in Pink Waves (this is the sequel to Black Dada)
The Queer Art of Failure
Jack Halberstam
$29.84A book of queer theory that Sawako finds very helpful for questions of translation
Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics
Paul Preciado
$25.95 $24.13We talk about Paul Preciado's ideas of naturalized desire. Those ideas aren't necessarily in this book but I wanted to point people to a book of his
Translation Is a Mode=translation Is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode
Don Mee Choi
$13.80Don Mee Choi's book that we mention
Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
Dorothy J Wang
$34.50Dorothy Wang's book that we talk quite a bit about regarding Sawako's own self-conception and how it has shifted in relation to whiteness
Transgressive Circulation
Johannes Goransson
$17.25i read from this book, the excerpt of it that Sawako chooses to read in the Kate Briggs panel we discuss
Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems
Gozo Yoshimasu
$18.95We don't talk about this book (edited by Forrest Gander) but it is probably the best example of a translation project of the truly untranslatable (and Sawako is one of the translators)
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27
Keith Waldrop
$24.95Sawako's only formal study of translation was under Keith Waldrop