Yuko Otomo’s ‘PINK’
Written in Japanese and translated by the author, Yuko Otomo’s PINK is a paean to Paris, to her revered precursor, Baudelaire, and to her soulmate, the American poet Steve Dalachinsky. As she explains in a generously spontaneous afterword, Steve and Yuko visited Paris nearly every other year for 15 years or so.
PINK
Yuko Otomo
Lithic Press, 2024, 67 pages, $20.00, ISBN 978-1-946583-30-7
Bernard Noël (1930-2021): State of Air
Bernard Noël
States of Air
tr. Charles Bernstein
for Viera da Silva
we have just the view
the words of wind
this void the land
here the deepening reverses
self-regard
making us leap into our eyes
always the go-and-come
the viewed and the not viewed
the graphing of not there
on that which is there