shin yu pai

This excerpt of work is from NUTRITIONAL FEED, a series of poems inspired by the paintings of New York artist David Lukowski. The full-length collection of texts and images will be published in 2007 by Tupelo Press. Lukowski's paintings are abstract narratives reflective of childhood and the American experience. My texts for this collaboration treat the paintings as ekphrastic objects, tracking the process of eye, mind, and heart. Please visit Admit 2 for more information and samples from the collection.

Shin Yu Pai is the author of The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz, 2006), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003) and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks) and Sightings: Selected Works are forthcoming. She is also a visual artist and has exhibited her work at the Paterson Museum, The MAC, Harvard University and The Dallas Museum of Art. Visit her website at http://shinyupai.com.

David Lukowski has discovered a great many things, not the least of which is the fact that a combination of melted vanilla ice cream and rye bread tastes a lot like Play-Doh. Mr. Lukowski's right-handed phalanges are intimately familiar with the hexagonal pleasure of a #2 pencil, a knowledge that has aided his exploits as an MFA candidate at Hunter College, NY. His work can be viewed online at www.davidlukowski.com.