Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Maarten van der Graaff met een gouden schrijn te

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With Anna Akhmatova

Elena Fanailova tells stories about the various social layers of a stratified and conflicted nation

Guest reflects on her commitment to the collaborative process: "When writers associate with other forms of art

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Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Maarten van der Graaff met een gouden schrijn teSawako Nakayasu In Sawako Nakayasus Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of girls is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in response to Nakayasus 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing conventions,