[Providence]

Reading: Lindsay Turner + Sawako Nakayasu
May 13, 2018, 4:00 pm
at Riffraff

Join us as we welcome translator Lindsay Turner and poet Sawako Nakayasu, who contributed an introduction to this edition, as they discuss the collection and their relationships to it. The contemporary Franco-Japanese poet Ryoko Sekiguchi's adagio ma non troppo is a series of prose poems that turns from its source text—a collection of love letters from the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa to his fiancée—towards an imaginative exploration of cities, times, gardens, relationships, encounters, words, and poetry. As Sawako Nakaysu writes in her introduction to the text: "Although the book has its roots in Pessoa and his love, the object of Sekiguchi's love is a radiant, shimmering life of poetry in poetry—a life animated by the act of reading and writing it. Written in French and Japanese by Sekiguchi, and translated from the French by Lindsay Turner, the book is being published in a tri-lingual edition by Les Figues press this spring. More info here.