in Writing, and served as a 2012 Kundiman faculty mentor alongside Li-Young Lee and Srikanth Reddy. She is also a faculty mentor for the University of Nebraska low-residency M.F.A. Roripaugh is currently 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. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her short stories have been shortlisted as stories of note in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and two of her essays have been shortlisted as essays of note for the Best American Essays anthology. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2004 winner of the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing awarded by the Western Literature Association, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her second volume, Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press), was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, Dandarians, was released by Milkweed Editions in September 2014.
As Tsunami makes visible her suffering, the wrath of nature scorned, humanity has the opportunity to reconsider the trauma they cause Earth and each other. "She's an unsubtle thief / a giver of gifts," Roripaugh writes of Tsunami, who spits garbage from the Pacific back into now-pulverized Fukushima. As humanity rebuilds in disaster's wake, Tsunami continues to wreak her own havoc, battling humans' self-appointed role as colonizer of Earth and its life-forms. And then there is Roripaugh's unforgettable Tsunami: a force of nature, femme fatale, and "annihilatrix." Tsunami is part hero and part supervillain-angry, loud, forcefully defending her rights as a living being in contemporary industrialized society. Here we meet its survivors and victims, from a pearl-catcher to a mild-mannered father to a drove of mindless pink robots. the fukushima 50, Lee Ann Roripaugh takes a piercing, witty, and ferocious look into the heart of the disaster. Those who stayed at the plant to stabilize the reactors, willing to sacrifice their lives, became known internationally as the Fukushima 50. In March 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake collided with nearby power plant Fukushima Daiichi, causing the only nuclear disaster in history to rival Chernobyl in scope. The grass bank-cum-roof.Named a Best Book of 2019 by the New York Public Library In this case, it took six months for the vegetation to grow. Later trees native to the area are planted and grow spontaneously. Initially, fast-growing grasses hold the soil in place. It contains 10 different types of seed and can be laid on surfaces with an inclination of as much as 70%. The artificial soil is a mixture of Japanese cedar and cypress bark chips. On the north side, the embankment is four metres high. Large expanses of the roof are covered with grassy turf, especially the south side where it rises 20 m. The glass panes have a protective film coating that prevents excess heating from the sun’s rays, during summer. All the tennis courts receive daylight from overhead skylights, reducing the need for artificial lighting. There are other smaller entrances.Įndo has given particular attention to energy efficiency. The lattice frame structure allows wide untrammelled spaces while four large apertures are wide enough for vehicle traffic. In the end, the problem was solved lowering the central arena six metres below ground level. This clashed, however, with the regulations for a complex hosting 1500 tennis match spectators where completely open spaces are not allowed. In other words, although under cover, the area must be as flexible as a wide, open space. In an emergency, vehicles must be able to enter the interior unhampered and there must be sufficient space to pitch rows of relief tents.
The main constraint was to provide a huge, pillar-free space. The complex has a dual function: first, as a disaster management centre second, as a sports complex with nine tennis courts whose centre court is surrounded by 1500 spectator seats and is fully compliant with international competition regulations.įorm and structure conform to the building’s main function. This public building commissioned by the Hyogo Prefecture is located in Miki in parkland created after the devastating earthquake of Hanshin-Awaji in 1995.
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