WE COMPUTERS

WE COMPUTERSFrom the press: In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist JonPerse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he learns from his Uzbek translation partner, Abdulhamid Ismail, Jon Perse builds a computer program capable of both analyzing and generating literature. But beyond the text on his screen there are entire worldsof history, philosophy, and maybe

and opened the Poétique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre

Laced with intergalactic paranoia

Kilele (Tanzania)

and textured grays jump off the bright white and deep black backgrounds

From the press: Nazareth Hassan’s devastatingly brilliant Slow mania is a powerful document of senses and sense-making where estrangement and ugliness meets longing and beauty

The haiku form

surrealism

as confined to infinity as it might be

These coil bound notebooks

all while living and practicing as a Catholic nun

and a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch College

The poems of Lee Sumyeong's Just Like evince a striking tension between clarity and complexity