[Paris]

Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo
May 10, 2012, 7:00 pm
at Berkeley Books of Paris

Free reading with Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo. Directions: Starting from Odéon Métro, look for Starbucks, walk past it to the left and take the second street to the right (Rue Antoine-Dubois), a pedestrian street with stairs at the end. Go up the stairs, cross Rue Monsieur-le-Prince into Rue Casimir-Delavigne. You will see the sign “Books” about 50 meters ahead on the right. Steve Dalachinsky is the author of In Glorious Black & White (UDP 2005) and contributed collages to The Race Poems (UDP 2004). He lives in New York City. Yuko Otomo is of Japanese origin & is a visual artist & a bilingual poet (poetry & haiku). She also writes art criticism, essays & does translation. In visual art, she has been concentrating herself on the study of “pure abstraction” & has created a body of work covering over 3 decades. Her work has been shown in various gallery spaces such as Tribes Gallery, Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Gallery, ABC No Rio, Brecht Forum, Gallery 128, Knitting Factory & Vision Festival. As a poet/writer, she has read her work in venues such as St. Marks’s Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry Club, Tonic, The Stone, Knitting Factory, NY Public Library, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Nest, Pink Pony, Nuyorican Poet’s Café etc. She also has read in Germany, France & Japan. She has been published in many magazines & literary publications such as Recluse, 6×6, Long Shot, Appearances, The Unbearables Assemblage Magazine, Downtown Anthology, Senritsu & others. Her books include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Small Poems (UDP 2005), The Hand of the Poet (UDP), Cornell box Poems, Genesis, and Fragile (Sisyphus Press). She also has a huge volume of critical writing on art such as On Artist & Studio, On Artaud: Writing & Drawing, Henri Michaux: Untitled Passage, Vermeer & the Deft School, Being as an academician versus being an intellectual, Victor Hugo & more.