LEADER 02677nam 22004693 450 001 9911021267203321 005 20250912080409.0 010 $a1-68571-273-8 035 $a(CKB)40383757500041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32291629 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32291629 035 $a(BIP)123428949 035 $a(BIP)123434904 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940383757500041 100 $a20250912d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Ants 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aEarth, Milky Way :$cPunctum Books,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (133 pages) 311 08$a1-68571-272-X 330 $aThe Ants is a study not of, but through, ants. In a dashing sequence of prose pieces, Sawako Nakayasu takes the human to the level of the ant, and the ant to the level of the human. Prima facie, The Ants is a catalogue of insect observations and observations of insects. But the expose? of insect life humbles and disrupts the myopia that is human life, where experience is seen in its most raw and animal form and human "nouveau-ambitious" and "free-thinking" lifestyles become estranged, uncovered, and humbled. Found in dumpling soups and remembered in childhood vignettes, these ants trail through what Nakayasu describes as the "industry of survival," exploring interfaces of love, ambition, and strategy. The danger is not in sentiment, but rather, in a gash, a wall, an argument, an intention. Is it more lonely to be crushed into the core of a non-mechanical pencil, to be isolated in the safety of home, or to "find" "it" "all" at the very very last moment? The Ants is the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton, and Nakayasu puts her finger on it, and it, and it.This title is a new and expanded edition released as part of punctum's Special Collections project, containing additionally seventeen bilingual English-Japanese poems from the chapbook Insect Country E: Bilingual Insects. 606 $aFICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander$2bisacsh 606 $aPOETRY / Asian American & Pacific Islander$2bisacsh 606 $aPOETRY / General$2bisacsh 615 7$aFICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander 615 7$aPOETRY / Asian American & Pacific Islander 615 7$aPOETRY / General 700 $aNagayasu$b Sawako$01847522 701 $aNakayasu$b Sawako$01847523 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911021267203321 996 $aThe Ants$94433218 997 $aUNINA