Day Pulls Down the Sky / A Filament in Gold Leaf
Asiya Wadud
(Author)
Okwui Okpokwasili
(Author)
Description
Poetry. This book, DAY PULLS DOWN THE SKY / A FILAMENT IN GOLD LEAF is comprised of Okwui Okpokwasili's song lyrics and Asiya Wadud's poems written in response to them. These pages contain both a collaboration and two parallel manuscripts, with Wadud's "a filament in gold leaf" heading the pages, and Okpokwasili's lyrics for "day pulls down the sky" footnoted by the musical sign for coda. This sign was selected in order to express the connection between Okpokwasili's lyrics and Wadud's poems. The coda notation indicates "expanded cadence." In writing through Okpokwasili's music, Wadud wrote poems as she listened to particular songs and wrote the entire suite of poems listening to the album's sixth song, "follow me." The grey scale coda signifies the presence of "follow me" throughout the entirety of a filament in gold leaf, and the black coda marks a more singular association between specific poems and songs.Product Details
Price
$12.00
Publisher
Belladonna*
Publish Date
May 07, 2019
Pages
56
Dimensions
6.3 X 0.2 X 7.3 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781733927109
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About the Author
Asiya Wadud is the author of several poetry collections, including, most recently, No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her writing has been published in e-flux journal, BOMB Magazine, Triple Canopy, Poetry, Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Foundation Jan Michalski, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Rosendal Theater Norway, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and Beirut Arts Center, among others. Wadud lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches poetry at Saint Ann's School and Columbia University.
Okwui Okpokwasili is a performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces that draw viewers into the interior lives of women of color, particularly those of African and African American women, whose stories have long been overlooked and rendered invisible. Her formally experimental productions include Bronx Gothic, Adaku's Revolt, Poor People's TV Room, and Sitting on a Man's Head, and bring together elements of dance, theater, and the visual arts (with spare and distinctive sets designed by her husband and collaborator, Peter Born). She has held residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Rauschenberg Foundation Captiva Residency, and New York Live Arts, where she was a Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist. She has been awarded several Bessie Awards and was a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
