"I have conceived of the online portion of JOE SENT ME as a "living" document, where each poem takes on a life of its own outside of the writer and the written hand. The internet provides the perfect vehicle for the nuances of poetry, for the transportation of its substance, for the transmission of its message through time. For me, raw computer coding languages hold within them pure poetic potential: the hope is to shape new ways of perceiving technology and its relation to language, music, things remembered, things heard, reflection, recollection and the spoken word."

ABOUT THE CODES

On some of the poems the text pieces are movable - the words and letters can be rearranged and reorganized - viewers are invited to send me their screenshots of their versions of my poems here.

LOVE LIVES is written with a disappearing text code - if you move your cursor over it, the letters will vanish. The reader can choose to erase some of the words so that the poem can be re-written and re-interpreted - once again, viewers are invited to send me snapshots of their versions.

The audio segments are meant to be played at the same time, or you can choose to play them all at once. The virtual portions of JOE SENT ME are meant to be flexible and fluid experiences.

Many thanks to Raul Vincent Enriquez who has shed his sonic insight into my poems, and to Greta Byrum who shared her ear & expertise with their recording at Recorded Books, New York City.

Special thanks to Daniel Sisla who was also a guest poet at the Barcelona Poesia 2008 symposium, and who has so perceptively and impeccably created Catalan translations of LOVE LIVES, DREAM, and INTO THE NIGHT.

Special thanks also to Bruno Galindo for his flawless & beautiful Spanish translations of THE HOOK & LOVE LIVES IN THE DARK.

VANESSA DAOU 10.08

LINKS

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Vanessa Daou Homepage

Vanessa Daou Biography

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