This book explores the emotional and socio-political lives of a cast of characters based on autobiography, expressed in sound. The book’s claustrophobic tercets combined with spiraling repetition help foreground the importance of artifice and code, the very elements the book’s characters undermine, complicate, and expose. The code is a score. To sound out the story. The book was inspired in part by the author reading Jack Spicer: “I was excited by the serial poem as a form as well as the idea that there is no such thing as a single poem… This was me not stopping.”
Sue Landers is the author of Franklinstein (Roof Books, 2016), Covers (O Books, 2007), and 248 mgs., a panic picnic (O Books, 2003). Her chapbooks include 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style and What I Was Tweeting While You Were on Facebook. She was the founding editor of the poetry journal POM2, and in 2018 was an artist-in-residence at PLAYA. She has an MFA from George Mason University and lives in Brooklyn.