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Mariko Nagai

Mariko Nagai

April 29, 2013 by PBQ

Mariko Nagai’s work has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts, Yaddo, to name a few. She has received the Pushcart Prizes both in poetry and fiction. Nagai’s collection of poems, Histories of Bodies, won the Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press. Her first collection of stories, Georgic: Stories, […]

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Mariko Nagai: How We Touch the Ground, How We Touch

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

As usual, another season of betrayal must follow the harvest. During the harvest, we are safe. On the field, we whisper half a phrase and hum fragmented sounds of words amongst us, messages of the Carpenter-Son hidden in broken phrases of weather and harvest. We bend our backs to cut the stalks, huddling as close […]

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Mariko Nagai: Fugue

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

(When I was a child, I was always hungry. We grew up not knowing that some people were never hungry. When I was a child, my parents taught me that our bodies are not ours, but our masters’, that we are put on earth to bend as near to the ground as we can, bound […]

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