So We Have Been Given Time Or

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.