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Village Well Books & Coffee or Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Extended Praise for Navigating With(out) Instruments:
“traci kato-kiriyama in her second book, Navigating With(out) Instruments, braves the task of uncovering the layered textures of history. From her own Nisei to millennials to the unborn, kato-kiriyama weaves generational relationships together displaying that everyday living is complex and that the challenge is not to be lost in life’s intricacies and traumas. Through hybrid verse and a myriad of observances, we are shaped by what an elder’s presence offers long after they have left us. “I just need a surprise. And a good memory. One that promises it lived before me. That it had time to seep into our bones.” Here is the Obon manifesting as verse. On every page, verse pirouettes from memory to the present, and into an aspirational future.
Western culture speaks of “Carpe Diem” as a means to individually savor what life has to offer. Kato-kiriyama provides readers with an alternative sutra: “we had to go out and excavate our own memories. We had to find our history and fight for the revelation of our narra-tives.” Navigating With(out) Instruments reminds us to seize our stories, seize our culture, seize our art, seize the days that have been paved for you because the duty is to pass all of it, grand and small, to the next generation.
Navigating With(out) Instruments is aremarkable undertaking. I am enamored with its breadth, its expanse, but mostly how it kept whispering questions in my ear: “Did your grandma have a hearty laugh? Did your grandpa also like to drink? Where are the remains of their proudest echoes being stored?” Here kato-kiriyama lays out our necessary practice: keep your family present in the art you create; create art that celebrates community collaboration; keep your body linked to the body of work you will create. If we wrap ourselves with what she is telling us, if we do the dance Navigating With(out) Instruments invites us to do, then what ultimately happens is a glorious and continual flourishing.”
F. Douglas Brown, author of ICON, and Zero to Three, winner of 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Website: www.fdouglasbrown.com
IG and all other socials: @fdouglasbrown
“The elegy according to traci kato-kiriyama's Navigating With(out) Instruments is a hybrid lament in which grief shapeshifts time after time. Each loss that unfolds in these pages cracks open my heart, and I know immediately that only someone who has examined every indelible texture of this ache can write with such sharp clarity. I am put back together by the tenderness with which kato-kiriyama weaves in the love of and for a partner, family, community, and larger vision for social change in between deep mourning, inspiring a world in which we too can become ‘impossible to kill.’ This book has become my poetic guidepost for survival. May it be for you too.”
Muriel Leung; Imagine Us, The Swarm; Bone Confetti
Website: www.murielleung.com
T/IG: @murmurshewrote
“traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments presents a writer with X-Ray vision mapping the invisible world in poignant poetry & experimental short prose that leaves you wanting more. Honoring ancestors, remembering intersections, stitching together serial memories, traci inspires her readers to dig deeper and feel our interconnectivity. I have been working on reprogramming my subconscious mind, clearing my karma and becoming more free – this book pushes and inspires me toward all of those things.”
Mike Sonksen; Professor, Poet & Author of Letters to My City
“A daring self exploration inviting us all to further honor what made us, cherish the breaths we share, and challenge the history that prevents our healing, our building, and our rise. It reminded me to expand my understanding of connection, gave me laughs that needed releasing, and affirmed the vulnerability I seek to be empowered by. Grateful for this needed addition to our shared story.”
Beau Sia; Tony Award winning poet (Def Poetry); Author of Well Played
@beausia
“Navigating With(out) Instruments brings forth stories that tear me apart with the brutal beauty of the life blood that courses through Traci and her ancestors. She invites me into her deeply feeling and perceptive spirit, building me back with more fire in my veins to continue striving for a life of true activism, art, love, and community. Her words made me feel my most sacred yearnings for a sense of belonging as an Asian American, a woman, and a human being who believes in the possibility for better. My heart sang and screamed with joy and catharsis, because reading her latest work is quenching my thirst to see a fellow Asian sister stand in all her sacred glory. The collection of poems and essays has left me feeling determined to dig deeper, to stand taller, and to walk the walk. This is truly an offering of Traci’s soul, and mine is richer after having read this. A must read.”
MILCK; songwriter and social change advocate behind Billboard’s #1 Protest Song of the Year (2017), the #icantkeepquiet movement, and The Somebody’s Beloved Fund
Website: www.milckmusic.com | www.somebodysbeloved.com
Youtube: www.youtube.com/milckmusic
Instagram: @milckmusic www.instagram.com/milckmusic
“Navigating With(out) Instruments is a compass to sense into all the shades of living and dying. Like a talisman, traci kato-kiriyama’s words can ward off toxicity and soothe scars. For those with a performative tendency, this book can read like a series of text scores with lyrical instructions on enacting transformations in the body, across generations and shared consciousness. Experimental and practical at once, it demonstrates the possibilities of a choreography of life.”
Umi Hsu; sound artist, ethnographer, cultural organizer; Director of Content Strategy, ONE Archives Foundation
Instagram: instagram.com/wfumihsu
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wfumihsu
Website: http://bitterparty.info/ | http://beingumihsu.info/
“Navigating With(out) Instruments does the great work of both summoning and memorializing ancestors. More than collected poems and notes, this is a book of talismans and incantations, messages in bottles for the wrecked or those who want it.
We enter traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments fairly warned:
a book/of/poetry/is/a/trigger.
Here is an incantation to keep the reader close in tierra desconocida, spanning history and imagined futures. The reader is led as survivor of wreckages through sections demarcated by distress/signal flags. In this no-man's-land, themes of orientation and cartography, bodies and their limits, collective trauma and family memory/story serve as signposts. In the form of notes, essays and poems of address, kato-kiriyama speaks to the reader, to ancestors, to friends and lovers and occasionally a bad spirit, or an embodied evil (illness, racism). And through it all, kato-kiriyama maintains a tone of tenderness and intimacy, whether it is describing her hometown of Los Angeles or musing about the shared trauma between her own and a friend’s grandfather. She delicately manipulates the tension between the need to remember and the need to forget, and is not hope-less. Rather, she speaks as someone disabused of some neat and sanitized view of the world:
here we dance with the dead
Despite these hostile terrains, kato-kiriyama’s clear commitment of care and archival survival appears again and again, but not as a one-sided agreement. She speaks directly to us, charges us with the work of memory:
I hold you with me, keep me with you.”
Rocío Carlos
“Grief burrows itself in one’s bones and never leaves, it changes your very DNA and it demands to be felt. In Navigating With(out) Instruments, kato-kiriyama weaves a lament that poses grief, not as an isolating experience but rather a communal one that can teach us about care and nurturing. How to channel what we may be taught to reserve for our children (real or imagined) and channel it into/with the very real people who walk beside us through this life, who hold vigil and remember the names of those lost, who share their hearts with us as we struggle to carry on. Her book reminds me that grief is meant to be shared, and only through this act of revealing the cracks in our hearts can we begin to teach each other to be free.”
Zora Satchell; Editor; Poet; Co-founder of the Estuary Collective; Editor; & Poet
Website: https://www.estuarycollective.org/
“We must feel everything. Allow ourselves. Traci KK obviously is in this practice -
A deep spiritual practice of "feeling the feelings" even when you can't do anything to change, or even predict, courses of disease, deep desires for the world, political struggle, allyship, death, deeper desires for your community, grieving loss of loves or of something you never had, deepest desires for self.
Reading my comrade's work told me the truth of this practice, the bravery to do this while surrounded by insanity - bodies and minds inundated with the horrors of greed, violence and individualism brought on by capitalism...
I cried so much reading this work. Not because I love Traci. Those are other tears.
But because art.
Because of the duty we have to place on ourselves to document.
The courage to take this on.
The way she writes with visual details about the most gorgeous moments of life, or how her writing glides through other hard moments, allowing you to feel the beauty in the pain.
The way the book sews stories you think are sectioned for chapters, as poetry books tend to be, but this one reads like a novel...
We are tired because we are exhausted from keeping our emotions in.
Traci is not tired. She's now become the practice.
And through her practice of writing, documenting, feeling and documenting feelings, we have a gift of art from someone who has been sitting with and learning from the great justice-loving artists and activists, so that what is finally on page is layered from start to finish allowing us to go deeply through our own lives, through her poems. And thus, through this gift, we can continue our practice.”
D'Lo; Actor/Comic/Writer (HBO, Netflix, CW); Solo Artist (To T or not To T?); Sherwood Award Winner; Civic Media Fellow, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
Website: dlocokid.com
imdb: imdb.me/dlocokid
“traci kato-kiriyama's Navigating With(out) Instruments will expand your heart and spirit in all directions – in the marrow of your bones, deep into the earth, out into the streets, and into the stars and beyond where our collective radical imagination and our ancestors of past, present and future beckon us to listen more, ask more questions, stoke our hunger for justice, and love in ways that crack us open beyond what we believed possible.”
Yumi Sakugawa; author of Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe
Instagram: instagram.com/yumisakugawa
“NTtkk – You take us deep inside the ache, pain and anger (your own, your family’s and ours too) and you emerge with gratitude, pleading with us, your Big Sistahs, to write our own letters/stories and to act with urgency.
Navigating With(out) Instruments reminds us that it is possible to fly without limits. tkk shows us how to be brave by digging deep into her pain, joy and anger and by trusting that we will not only survive but be stronger to fight another day.
Reading this is like being put inside a washing machine, tumbled by pain, anger, honesty, vulnerability and emerging a little more worn but cleansed and ready for battle.”
Kathy Masaoka; Educator, Speaker, Organizer (Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress)
“traci kato-kiriyama is our time’s flame bearer, warning us of past wrong turns and shining light immediately in front of us. She belongs to the circle of poets who release words to restore, galvanize, and goad. I will be picking up Navigating With(out) Instruments often to remind myself where we’ve been and to determine where we need to go. An essential addition to a 21st century library.”
Naomi Hirahara; author of the Mas Arai series and Clark and Division
Website: www.naomihirahara.com
Twitter and IG: @gasagasagirl
“In Navigating With(out) Instruments traci does what she does best – draws us inside the emotional architecture of her most intimate moments. This is the perfect read for anyone looking to witness her resilience and who want to make friends with their own feelings of loss and belonging.”
Jenny Yang; HBO and Fox TV writer, comedian, actor
Website: jennyyang.tv
IG / Twitter: @jennyyangtv
“traci kato-kiriyama’s poems are a travelogue of trauma and survival, birth and rebirth, bearing witness to entire lives and singular moments from a divine viewpoint. Her voice and beautiful language lead us, like guided meditation, through the maelstrom of collective and personal histories, and remind us how – despite the long, dark shadows of the past – we can maintain a defiant light of hope: even in the face of doom, we can insist on loving and trying.”
Allan Aquino; poet and professor of Asian American Studies, CSU, Northridge
Website: https://allanaquino.wordpress.com/curriculum-vitae/ | https://www.csun.edu/humanities/asian-american-studies/allan-aquino
“Trigger warning: You will find yourself in this. From shrapnel to snuggles. N.T.R.: savor everything.”
Karen Ishizuka; Author of Serve The People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties; Lost & Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration.
“Not all books do something, but traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments does because it envisions us. Really, it’s a guide where ‘politics are not shy . . . and accolades are fleeting and fame is relative [and] pride is more complicated than war.’ For me, it is a long desired relief to have an artist acknowledge the frailty of recognition and honor and center the work of art and artists that don’t feel real because the institutions and journals and jobs don’t ‘see’ them. Here, traci writes ‘the tricky part between strangers – keep it light or keep it real?’ The hybrid work she creates chooses the real and the essential, firmly. Its narrative(s), calls to action, learnings, ceremony, advice and in(sight) and notes to self and others on death, regret, joy, naming, ethics, ac(count)ability, love, vision(s) of partnerships of all kinds. traci kato-kiriyama’s book teaches me tiny, tender, and courageous ways I can transform now and next time on my own way to getting free next to everyone else getting free.”
Sara Borjas; Author of Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (2020 American Book Award)
IG: @saraborhaz
Website: www.saraborjas.com
“After giving us signaling, traci invites us further into her journey in Navigating With(out) Instruments with poems that are by turns fiercely vulnerable and unflinching examinations of self, society, history-- never decontextualized. Her writing keeps me grounded always in the power of art as practice and celebration of deep allegiance to place, to people, to justice. traci reminds me that with art, we can (as she says in "Letters to Taz -- on meeting") offer each other permission / to voice a wild dream / And yell towards the devils / of another man’s heaven. And in so doing, create and nurture our h(e)avens.”
narinda heng
Website: longcoolhallway.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/narinda___
“traci kato-kiriyama’s poetry is a gift to ‘the bridge builders, fire starters, subtle markers, direct talkers, humble sages, teachers, nurses, healers, counselors, therapists, misfit and alien beings’ of Los Angeles, both old and new. Their words reach across the noise of freeways, neon lights, and construction to give us something real, human, and innately of us. Those who are from this place know the true stars shine nowhere near Hollywood, nor in the hazy sky. They are corporeal beings belonging to their dead, their city, and their body. tkk’s poems are rooted in activism and reach out to us from the page with their abundant love. Any true Angeleno will be touched and thankful.”
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo; Author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge
IG/Twitter: @xochitljulisa
Website: xochitljulisa.wordpress.com
Women Who Submit IG/Twitter: @womenwhosubmit
Website: womenwhosubmitlit.org
“traci kato-kiriyama's account of her body's autonomy against time and desire touches the tender bruises of adulthood. In Navigating With(out) Instruments are the things we cannot control: best-laid plans, other people's wants, a wild body. We join kato-kiriyama and collectively bump into hard, vulnerable memories that tease yet never answer to whom does a body belong? We experience their shape shifting body -- observer, traitor, living memorial, beloved and needing, and an absolution -- with the care of a documentarian.”
Ashaki Jackson; author of two chapter-length collections, Surveillance (Writ Large Press) and Language Lesson (Miel)
Website: www.ashakijackson.com
Twitter: @ashakijackson
“‘Warning A Book of Poetry is a Trigger’. From the first poem to the last, kato-kiriyama lays each word on the page like a forgotten heirloom, speaking to every intimate crack of our lives. kato-kiriyama writes the words that breathe/ gasp/ exhale when you forget to.”
Kristina Wong; Performance Artist; Comedian; Elected Official in Koreatown LA; Overlord of the Auntie Sewing Squad
MY OFF-BROADWAY show this Fall!
“traci kato-kiriyama is one of my best friends. I feel I know her extremely well and yet this book brought me a whole new understanding of her. Intimate, profound, moving. It will grab your heart and tickle your mind. With intelligence and deep care, traci has delivered heartbreaking topics in a way that leaves you inspired and downright joyful. An absolute treasure.”
Keiko Agena; Author of No Mistakes; Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls
IG / Twitter: @KeikoAgena
“History is carried in the bones. kato-kiriyama captures a cross-section of life, family, erasure, survival, and activism, molding it into one beautiful book that will inspire anyone who reads it. She has created, through this book's ebb and flow, its weft and weave, a larger picture of the city, activism, erasure, the complexity of surviving while POC, while queer, and how to navigate the absurdities this life throws us with purpose and intent. Individually, the poems about reparations, about sexuality and its labels, about Manzanar, and all of the poems about Little Tokyo, can and should be taught in various classes across curriculums, from grammar school through college, in classes from urban sustainability to ethnic studies. kato-kiriyama distills complicated ideas into a small space, making many of these poems perfect for textbooks.”
Kate Maruyama; Author of Harrowgate; Family Solstice
@katemaruyama
“In a daring experimentation of form, story, and style, traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments guides readers to reflect, heal, and build resiliency within themselves and their communities. kato-kiriyama not only challenges us to be bolder, but also to build futures beyond our wildest imagination.”
Naomi Ko; Filmmaker, Writer, Actor; Bush Leadership Fellow; Jerome Hill Artist Fellow; Sundance Art of Practice Fellow
Website: www.konaomi.com
Twitter and Instagram handle: @konaomie
“She’s the ‘hybrid Artist Organizer’ who sings ‘let’s start from YES’ when we are ‘standing in the face of open wounds.’ traci kato-kiriyama has been listening, curating, hosting, and now straddles cultural, sexual, and generational tectonics in her unerring Navigating With(out) Instruments, brave, expansive, nuanced reminders for us to live so we ‘have something good to report when you join the Dead.’”
Peter J. Harris; author; Bless the Ashes; Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My ‘Unalienable Right’
Website: www.blackmanofhappiness.com
Instagram: @seeyou247
“traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments is a cacophony of voices that celebrates personal histories, memories and their rhythmic chords that refuse the forgetting. This brave and vulnerable collection resists monolithic narratives that oppress and flatten the femme, queer, Asian and diasporic body and spirit. These poems are electric, striving to combat psychological annihilation of any kind. Hence, this collection continues that lineage of poet-artist-activist and fortifies it, ready to pass the fire to the next.”
Angela Peñaredondo
Website: angelapenaredondo.com
My IG handle: @domainedenarwhal.
Facebook: Angela Peñaredondo
“Joy and mourning. Grit and lightness. Flight and grounding. The pendulum ferociously swings through these moving mementos exploring oneself in the context of humanities interconnected through space and time. A heart-baring and determined navigation of the never ending complexities and ironies of human life forging ahead.”
Sri Panchalam; Artist; Musician; Advocate
“In Navigating With(out) Instruments traci kato-kiriyama demonstrates a deeply affecting understanding of her forebearers' life experiences during the years of searing racism in early Twentieth Century America...In ‘warning,’ the opening poem of this extraordinary collection of ‘poetry, micro essays, and notes to self,’ kato-kiriyama encourages the reader to slow down: do not race through this work like an ordinary book because this book, its typography and its contents, are far from ordinary.”
Mitsuye Yamada; Author of Camp Notes and Other Writings and Full Circle
Website: Mitsuye.com | MitsuyeYamada.com
“‘in reality, is the / opposite of / war / not peace, / but instead, amnesia?’ kato-kiroyama infuses Navigating With(out) Instruments with the power and pain of remembering. This collection continues the excavations and yearnings of signaling, with an added tenor of rage that fuels their visions for a just world, and illuminates their love of Los Angeles.”
T.K. Lê; Writer and 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow
Website: http://tk-le.com/
Instagram: @tk_le_tired
“Navigating With(out) Instruments is a set of captivating travels through life & death, discovery & recovery, while winding through country, ancestry, and identity. Never heavy handed, it connects by way of personal milliseconds magnified, exploded onto the page. Her words feel familiar and thoroughly compassionate, which makes this work spacious and patient - it made room for me to examine my own pile of stories at my own pace. And just as simply, it made me want to better enjoy my next breath. Anyone who knows traci would likely agree that these are profoundly true characteristics of what it feels like to have a conversation with her. In her true form, this work feels like that extended conversation over bottomless coffee. This work is built on steel beams of ancestry and blood memory, with rooms occupied by growing pains, birthday wishes, things unsaid, dancing, singing, who is owed, how we own. It is a beautiful guide on navigating toward our immeasurable capacity to live.”
Surrija; Songwriter; Recording Artist; Arranger, Actor and Musician for Cambodian Rock Band, Off-Broadway
“traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments offers just the salve we need to soothe us in these difficult times. This collection reveals tkk to be an alchemist, who can take pain and grief, trauma and loss, and transform them into works of beauty. tkk dives deep and pours their bleeding heart into this collection, their truth and vulnerability lighting the way, bringing us along on their journey to healing, to wellness, to wholeness.”
Ramy El-Etreby; writer/performer (The Ride); applied theatre artist; storyteller; educator
IG and Twitter: @dramarams
Website: Ramyeletreby.com
“The vivified words and remembrances forged here by artist traci kato-kiriyama offer that space inside the heart that remind us what a future breath might hold. ‘A surprise,’ ‘a good memory,’ or perhaps more simply, devastatingly, ‘mercy for another time.’ With striking aliveness and full-bellied meditations on death that surrender you—the reader—to traci, the liver, the survivor, the poet, the prayer. As if to say, here are the words that made me real. That made us die. That made us choose triumph, togetherness, and that ‘wild dream’ once more. Look at them, and memorize how they sing.”
Jenevieve Ting; Writer and Artist
IG: @tingrolls
Website: tingroll.com
“In traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments, we are buried with(in) ‘death moments,’ sifting memories and the ‘ancestral remains’ of a Japanese American family. While this collection is an excavation of grief, it is also an extraction of love, offering notes and letters on the generosity of communities, inherited bodies, and the complexities of illness, including the ones beyond ‘skin and soil.’”
Khaty Xiong; author of Poor Anima
Twitter: @khatyxiong https://twitter.com/khatyxiong
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khatyxiong/
Website: https://khatyxiong.com/
“Navigating With(out) Instruments is a collection of regrets and what ifs; an accounting of the aftermath of option B when option A was the correct answer. It’s an archive of a history that will never be recovered. But it’s far more astute and thoughtful than a tale of the vulnerable underbelly of survival and struggle we all know exists and love to mythologize. traci’s ability to be a curious student of her own personal tragedy and mourning - and have the nerve to write down her observations in the midst of it all - is a rare type of courage and intelligence that doesn’t boast. Instead, it resonates. You could read Navigating in a couple of sittings, but I didn’t. I put it down often to cry, but I also put it down to write. And I can’t remember the last time a book of poetry ever compelled me to do both.”
Faith Santilla; A Slow Build to Power; Beatrock Music artist and collaborator (Bambu - Don’t Send for the Others; Ruby Ibarra - Us); poet; labor organizer
Twitter and IG: @faithsantilla
“This book is a poetic murmuration of power and prompts that leaps towards the edge without fear of flight. traci's writings soar beyond definitions of storytelling and soliloquy with the mastery of a bard with no borders. Her words have given birth to a divine dominion that inculcates the insistence of truths laid bare, family as sanctuary, and memoir as a weapon of mass deconstruction. Navigating With(out) Instruments, a stellar creation of a word warrior and revolutionary auntie griot, is nothing short of superb.”
Dorothy Randall Gray; Soul Between The Lines, poet, artist, teacher, enchantivist.
Website: www.DorothyRandallGray.com
“How do we survive these times—the ongoing metastasis of racism, cascade of environmental breakdowns and their effects on body and psyche? In Navigating With(out) Instruments, traci kato-kiriyama offers a map: embrace history and resistance, love community and self, risk creation in the midst of calamity. kato-kiriyama weaves poetry, conceptual art, letters, manifestos, and inner conversations to tender a pathway through this uncharted age.”
Terry Wolverton; Ruin Porn
Website: http://terrywolverton.net/
“While Robert Frost told us he took the ‘path not taken’, traci kato-kiriyama in Navigating With(out) Instruments escorts us on her journey of self and society navigated by family, loved ones and community with stunning honesty and openness. Creative not only in her poetry, but the textual presentation itself becomes a visual expression inviting readers to explore the interplay between word and form, traversing through layer upon layer of discovery. As your mind floats among her imagery it triggers your own adjacent memories and dreams guiding you not just to her story of self, but to your own.”
Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtiss-takada-rooks-4ab79a52/
Website: http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/author/rooks-curtiss/
“Like Ishmael Reed, traci kato-kiriyama believes ‘writin’ is fightin’,’ and she pulls no punches in this incandescent offering. traci is one of our most necessary voices, fighting cancer, dislocation and marginalization, death in the family and death in life, articulating community against a fierce headwind. Hitting a multiplicity of registers, traci speaks the names of resistance.”
Sesshu Foster; author of City of the Future
“traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments guides us to the fire where we commune with the living, the dead, and the never-been-alive. The flames of kato-kiriyama’s poetry and prose reflect enduring and complicated love for places we call community and souls we call family – chosen and by birth. Throughout Navigating With(out) Instruments, kato-kiriyama powerfully reminds us of our deeply shared connection through grief, joy, and our collective struggles in a way that grabs you and never lets you go.”
Daren Rikio Mooko; Educator and Photographer
"I stopped breathing multiple times as I read Navigating With(out) Instruments. There is little time to rest as kato-kiriyama flies up highways, across neighborhoods, to the afterlife, and to the before. This book provides a compass for anyone looking to find direction in a world of outdated directions, comfort for anyone at a loss, and beautiful questions that reveal a landscape only kato-kiriyama has traversed -- a landscape they welcome us into as a home."
Sean Miura; Writer; Organizer; Producer/Curator (Tuesday Night Cafe)
IG / Twitter: @seanmiura
