Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm (Paperback)


Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm playfully experiments at the edges where languages meet. These poems probe the technologies of language and the languages of technology. This is "technology", with an emphasis on the Greek root "techne", meaning "something that's made". The investigation then becomes one of the relation of language to "making". The seams where languages meet offer the most vivid site for this activity, whether indigenous languages inside Spanish colonialism, the natural language inside programming, or the migration of the codes and protocols of the Internet into human speech. It is one thing inside another! In three sections, "The Parts", "Semilla de Calabaza / Pumpkin Seed", and "Leaving Loss Glazier", these poems explore the topographies/e-geographies of such migrations, invasions, and revelations. They explore Hispanicity and the Americas, sounding such language play within the action of programming or in human speech, whether set in the landscapes of the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica, or Cuba. In addition, many of these poems have used computer programming to test variants, to seed vocabulary, to build lexical culture, and to extend the poet's toolset to build beyond the flatness of print. In order to see language as so active, it becomes necessary to see it not as a singular and sovereign. It is not a whole but as an aggregation of constantly active parts, language as programming that makes language. Seeing language as parts of language expands all the possibilities that language within language opens. Such language is alive. This poetry is the living fabric of such activity.

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Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm playfully experiments at the edges where languages meet. These poems probe the technologies of language and the languages of technology. This is "technology", with an emphasis on the Greek root "techne", meaning "something that's made". The investigation then becomes one of the relation of language to "making". The seams where languages meet offer the most vivid site for this activity, whether indigenous languages inside Spanish colonialism, the natural language inside programming, or the migration of the codes and protocols of the Internet into human speech. It is one thing inside another! In three sections, "The Parts", "Semilla de Calabaza / Pumpkin Seed", and "Leaving Loss Glazier", these poems explore the topographies/e-geographies of such migrations, invasions, and revelations. They explore Hispanicity and the Americas, sounding such language play within the action of programming or in human speech, whether set in the landscapes of the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica, or Cuba. In addition, many of these poems have used computer programming to test variants, to seed vocabulary, to build lexical culture, and to extend the poet's toolset to build beyond the flatness of print. In order to see language as so active, it becomes necessary to see it not as a singular and sovereign. It is not a whole but as an aggregation of constantly active parts, language as programming that makes language. Seeing language as parts of language expands all the possibilities that language within language opens. Such language is alive. This poetry is the living fabric of such activity.

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Imprint

Salt Publishing

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

October 2003

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First published

2003

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Dimensions

216 x 140 x 6mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

112

ISBN-13

978-1-84471-001-0

Barcode

9781844710010

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LSN

1-84471-001-7



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