We’re sorry to have missed the September 2021 publication of Andre Bagoo’s Writing via Siddhartha by Damaged Sleep Books. Congratulations, Andre!
Philip Terry (Oulipoems) explains, “Writing via Siddhartha takes the textual content of Hermann Hesse’s 1922 novel and scrambles it utilizing a pc program. The result’s a sequence of mantric litanies which without delay take us to the guts of Hesse’s novel and past it to the second of forsaking, or enlightenment, sought by its eponymous hero, the place the fabric world we cling to is revealed in its abstractness, its obverse sides and its cyclical rhythms.”
Description: Andre Bagoo’s Writing via Siddartha follows the lead of Writing via Finnegan’s Wake, John Cage’s sound-poem explorations of Joyce. In Writing via Siddartha Bagoo refashions Hermann Hesse’s eponymous novel, ripping out traces and phrases utilizing an Oulipo fashion algorithm, changing the novel’s core with ghost poems, whose parenthood is a heady mixture of Bagoo, Hesse and arithmetic. Writing via Siddartha is experimental poetry with a non secular centre, proving that even when the guts of a textual content is eliminated, its soul stays.
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