South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
United States
Registration: $75, includes all workships, two lunches, and snacks. COntact Tiffani Pirner at Tiffani.Pirner@sdstate.edu
Lee Ann Roripaugh (tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, 2019) will read at the Great Plains Writers’ Conference. A book signing will follow the reading.
Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five volumes of poetry: Dandarians (Milkweed, Editions, 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999), and tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed, 2019). She was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The current South Dakota State Poet Laureate, Roripaugh is a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review.
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Lee Ann Roripaigh is the author of numerous collections of poems, including Dandarians and tsunami vs. the fukushima 50. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review and directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota. She is currently the South Dakota Poet Laureate.
These poems take a piercing, witty, and ferocious look into the heart of the Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster, showing us survivors, victims, and Tsunami: a force of nature, femme fatale, and “annihilatrix.”
Heian-period Japanese women writers, science fiction, and the author’s own experience as a second-generation immigrant: these are some of the sources these poems use to explore the connection between identity and language. Wonderfully lyrical and strikingly acute, this collection is an essential contribution to contemporary Asian American literature.