The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow

In The grass is greener when the sun is yellow poets Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Through research into these innovative womens dances ideas and lives Rosenthal and Witte use language from and about the choreographers to create a series of co-written sonnets that are interwoven with letters between the two poets. These letters describe the process of composing the poems and branch into discussions of dance poetics gender transgression the unfolding disaster of the current political scene and much else in the associative weave that epistolary form enacts. Together the poems and letters construct an environment of reflection intimacy and vulnerability one that is both challenging and invitational.