What is your working
title of your book?
Transition
Where did the idea come from for the book?
After looking at the sequences I’d been writing for the last
few years I realized that what they all had in common was that all the poems
were engaged with the process of “carrying across” meaning from one to
discourse to another.
What genre does your book fall under?
Poetry/ translation.
Which actors would
you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
I think Helen Mirren could do a good Gertrude Stein. Someone
in the Skarsgard clan could pass as bpNichol. With some CGI I can cover
Mayakovsky myself.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
A book of alternative translations, ranging from
homolinguistic to homophonic to ekphrasic.
Will your book be
self-published or represented by an agency?
I haven’t sent it out yet.
How long did it take
you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I’m still working on it, but it includes poems I started five
years ago.
What other books
would you compare this story to within your genre?
Translating
Translating Apollinaire, Six Fillious,
Zygal, Frogments from the Frag Pool.
Who or what inspired
you to write this book?
The avant-garde tradition in western literature.
What else about your
book might pique the reader’s interest?
It’s got it all: image-music-text, verbi-vocal-visual,
comics to captchas.
I was supposed to tag five more writers, but I could only find two people to play, Greg Betts, and Jonathan Ball (who immediately tagged me back). There you go.