{"id":797,"date":"2026-05-30T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/?page_id=797"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:11:10","slug":"pink-theory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/pink-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Theory!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coming from Milkweed Editions on January 26, 2027. You can preorder a copy here<\/a>. (Please do! Preorders make a huge difference to books’ reception and longevity.) Interested in a visit\u2014to your book club, your library, your university, your kitchen table? Please put some details here and I’ll be in touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the publisher: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tactile and synesthetic, <\/strong>Pink Theory!<\/strong><\/em> is a migratory exploration of image, poetic form, and philosophy that declares, \u201cWe cannot make the world\u00a0alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe begin with the alphabet. Then we go anywhere,\u201d writes \u00c9ireann Lorsung in her vibrant fifth collection. Lighthearted, playful, and sincere about the liberatory possibilities of beauty, solidarity, and joy, Pink Theory!<\/em> offers a world where poetry is imbued with philosophy, philosophy comes out of everyday life, and everyday life is shared with all living-thinking beings. These poems, woven through with borrowed snippets of music, fragments of poetry, and quotations, illustrate the book\u2019s claim that thought itself\u2014right down to the alphabet\u2014is shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorsung invites us into philosophy-making, articulating how it arises out of labor, love, community, and the natural world. She seeks to define \u201cthese things my bodybrain calls pink\u201d: the moon as it rises \u201cinto clouds of nacre,\u201d the tree that \u201cblooms a pale peach like the inside of a leg,\u201d a pink room where \u201cthere is no thinking without one another.\u201d Luxuriating in the bounty of collective making, these poems remind us that in a world of poems and philosophy we make by hand, we are all already at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pink Theory!<\/em> asserts that both thinking and world-making are joyful, warm, companionable, and never-ending\u2014but never-ending like a prism, not a prison. If poem means make, this book says, Let\u2019s make a whole\u00a0world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Kenyon Review<\/em> has published a few poems from this book. Here is “Reading Theory”<\/a>. (You’ll have to make an account to read, but you can read up to five pieces per month for free once you do.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s Studies Quarterly<\/em> published a poem called “Cloth Manifesto”<\/a> back in 2013. It’s available here through Project Muse, which does require sign-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diagram <\/em>12.5 includes “Pink”<\/a>, one of the earliest publications from this manuscript. (No sign-in required.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wondering what “pink theory”(!) means? 1. Read the book<\/a>; 2. I will come to your [kitchen table, back yard, classroom, public library, caf\u00e9, etc.] to talk with you about that; I will do this for free if you are Just a Person\/Just Some Neighbors or if you are a public library (details here<\/a>); 3. See below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming from Milkweed Editions on January 26, 2027. You can preorder a copy here. (Please do! Preorders make a huge difference to books’ reception and longevity.) Interested in a visit\u2014to your book club, your library, your university, your kitchen table? Please put some details here and I’ll be in touch. From the publisher: Tactile and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/797\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohbara.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}