Over the summer of 2017 Craig Ward, Fanny Josefsson and Ilana Wolstein discovered a mutual admiration for the abstract -- and frequently profound -- sentences generated by repeated use of the predictive text bar on Apple's iOS. Predictive text draws from a library of each user's most frequently used words to contextually suggest three words most likely to follow another. In doing so, it creates a fragmented recollection of messages we have already sent; a broken portrait of us and how we communicate. To create the poems, an initial word was chosen and from there, the predictive text library was navigated with a choice of only three words at a time. To maintain the flow of writing, punctuation and line breaks were generally added afterwards. In essence, this becomes a form of restricted writing, akin to the minimalist poets of the 20th Century. The results are at times clumsy or childlike, occasionally falling into a feedback loop, while others present us with truly poetic, existential observations.
- | Author: Josefsson
- | Publisher: Blurb
- | Publication Date: March 01, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 72 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1389725510
- | ISBN-13: 9781389725517
- Author:
- Josefsson
- Publisher:
- Blurb
- Publication Date:
- March 01, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 72 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1389725510
- ISBN-13:
- 9781389725517