"Saeed Jones Discovers Joy at the End of the World"
"At times, Jones would have to wrestle these poems into existence, laboring while seated at the desk in his Short North apartment. Other times, poems would arrive unexpectedly and almost wholly formed. One, about the late singer Whitney Houston, arrived as Jones prepared lunch in his kitchen, and he wrote the title and first few lines with a dry erase marker on his refrigerator. A second poem landed in similar fashion, Jones describing its arrival 'like a cold front coming in.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Douglas Luman on bpNichol's "First Screening"
"The poems are active; they literally reveal themselves. Even on what must be my hundredth viewing, the works are clever and moving solutions of poetic and technical 'problems.' Letters flutter, travel, disappear. Linguistic invention gives way to parallel, co-present visual-spatial metaphor. A romance occurs off screen in the code even if the viewer/user doesn't execute the author-provided code to see it happen ('Off-Screen Romance')." |
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