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Algorithms

John Allman

出版	Quale Press, 2012
主題	Poetry / GeneralPoetry / American / General
ISBN	19358350849781935835080
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yDbwMgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Poetry. John Allman's prose poems in ALGORITHMS go forth in a kind of wanderjahr to discover or be discovered. These prose poems possess a different kind of urgency, a vitality that almost defies boundaries, a freedom to span discourses and leap across vocabularies. Allman is free to follow his mindful wanderings, landing us in Croatia in 1991, navigating with Columbus in 1492, witnessing a drug bust, watching his wife's root canal, and examining the frozen remains of princess in Siberia. At the same time, the notion of an algorithm, the idea that, given a certain origin, a thing in process must become x or y, provides a way of understanding that each poem encompasses a fate, destined to become only itself—in essence, that boundaries are inherent in being. Ultimately, this points to Allman's unresolved conundrum: the desire to be something beyond one's self, but one can never escape one's own being, and its limits—for what then would I and Not-I be?