THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS — MONOCHROME (2021, Edition of 1) Jorge Luis Borges in ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’ imagines a novel as ‘a labyrinth of labyrinths,’ whose complexity verges on the Infinite, encompassing the entirety of the Universe itself in ‘an invisible...
TRANSLATING TRANSLATING APOLLINAIRE — GALLIFREYAN (2021, Edition of 1) The Canadian poet, bpNichol, once strove to translate the modern, French poem, ‘Zone’ (by Guillaume Apollinaire), but after failing to do so adequately, bpNichol decided to apply a series of...
Polyphony (2021, Edition of 1) ‘Polyphony’ is a pastoral idyll, written according to a Herculean constraint, in which the author, Christian Bök, has limited himself to using only the repertoire of letters (and symbols), accessible to his right hand when typing, by...
