The Science of Departures

Shannon Nakai is a poet and book reviewer whose work has appeared in&nbsp;The Cincinnati Review,&nbsp;Atlanta Review,&nbsp;The Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly,&nbsp;Cream City Review,&nbsp;Image,&nbsp;Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. A Fulbright Scholar and Pushcart Prize nominee, she currently lives with her husband and children in Wichita, Kansas. Follow her on Twitter&nbsp;@shan.violinlove.

Shannon Nakai

The Holding Places of Impermanence: On Adalber Salas Hernández’s “The Science of Departures”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Ova Completa

Resistance and Rhetoric in Susana Thénon’s “Ova Completa”

Shannon Nakai is a poet and book reviewer whose work has appeared in&nbsp;The Cincinnati Review,&nbsp;Atlanta Review,&nbsp;The Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly,&nbsp;Cream City Review,&nbsp;Image,&nbsp;Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. A Fulbright Scholar and Pushcart Prize nominee, she currently lives with her husband and children in Wichita, Kansas. Follow her on Twitter&nbsp;@shan.violinlove.