Publisher's Synopsis
Here's the story: I had come to #200 in a project called Autopoiesis and thought: time for a break, a new direction for a while. What to do, what to do? I'd been thinking about bpNichol's Translating Translating Apollinaire project, and about Oulipo, especially Queneau's Exercises in Style. And I'd been reading (with great pleasure) David Cameron's Flowers of Bad. So I thought I'd take a poem, and translate it (so to speak) using every algorithm I could find. Next step: find a poem. I was reading Eileen Tabios, and came across her The Secret Life of an Angel; this appealed to me vis-a-vis my project, because it is already one step removed from a Jose Garcia Villa poem, Girl Singing, to which it is a response. So I had the poem, and the title, which, to please myself, was 1000 Views of 'Girl Singing', the Garcia Villa poem from which I would not work, but which was waving from the distance ..."
