時間 Time：2015/7/26 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm
地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳
主持 Moderator: Polly Ho
嘉賓Guest：Collier Nogues
Collier Nogues’s
first book of poems, On the Other Side, Blue, was
published by Four Way Books in 2011. Her writing has been supported by the
MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Fishtrap.
She grew up in Texas and on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, and now teaches
creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also co-edits
poetry for Juked.
The Ground I Stand
On Is Not My Ground is a hybrid of
poetry and digital art. The poems erase historical documents related to the
development and aftermath of the Pacific War, especially on the island of
Okinawa. Erased into poems, these texts become spare narratives of how
individual soldiers’ and civilians’ daily lives were transformed by the war.
The poems and their original texts tell a larger story about the ways we
imagine war, and the ways language can be used to record, justify, memorialize,
or resist it. The book has a companion
website featuring each poem
as an interactive erasure. (www.thegroundistandon.com)
“This is the best book of erasure
poems since Srikanth Reddy’s Voyager. They don’t necessarily read as
erasures, but as lyric poems— even managing rhyme and epistolary. Like Reddy’s Voyager,
these carry powerful political implications, regarding Japan and Japanese/US
relations before, during, and after WWII.”
--Forrest Gander
