Travesty generator / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Crimes against--Poetry.

African Americans.

Racism--Poetry.

Racism.

Experimental poetry, American--21st century.

Experimental poetry, American.

Computer poetry--21st century.

Computer poetry.

African Americans--Crimes against.

American poetry.

Genre:

Experimental poetry.

Computer poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Blacksburg, Virginia] : Noemi Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Like a ghost in the machine, TRAVESTY GENERATOR remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterative and suggest the infinite recursions of nano data. The poems pay homage to lives taken too soon, those of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, pulls heroes like Harriet Tubman into the present, and offers the wisdoms spoken by Black mothers to their children. TRAVESTY GENERATOR reminds us that programming languages and computer codes are not neutral. But while oppressive algorithms abound, the poems hack their way into new connections and possibilities for Black life."--Amazon.com

Contents:

//three_last_words

//Counternarratives

//Soldier Buffalos: anagrams in trees

//Husband stories

//@Code_Switching

//Zombie nightmare

//@Tubman's_Rock

//A new sermon on the Warpland

//Coming of age stories

//"Incident".

Notes:

"The majority of the poems in this book were drafted using computer coding and programming, mostly Python and JavaScript but also Perl"--Page 76.

ISBN:

9781934819845

1934819840

OCLC:

1134446617

Publisher Number:

99984106503