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The speaker asks: 'how will i locate expansiveness in touch'? By 'dreamlight', a reader is trained, by this speaker, in a process of listening that's both a 'pledge of silence' and the recognition that 'we come to a limit and stop where it fits.' Is this 'genre trouble'? Nakayasu has written a book a writer could read, orienting to the desk, to the 'passing moment, ' in turn. This is grounding. This is beautiful.\"--Bhanu Kapil, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Wash a Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePink Waves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deepens my immense admiration for Nakayasu's poems and translations. Expansive, working across genres, she always pushes her writing into new places. In \u003cem\u003ePink Waves\u003c\/em\u003e, she has found another way to rigorously clear a space for herself or, perhaps more accurately, her many selves, attaining a fresh perspective. 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