of fracture: rewriting Bruce Andrews’ Factura by Robin Brox & mIEKAL aND

Description

Inspired by the December 2012 Fordham University symposium honoring Bruce Andrews, Robin F. Brox and mIEKAL aND have created Of Fracture, a homophonic translation of Andrews’s Factura. Published in 1987 by Xexoxial Editions, Factura is a book largely composed of morphemes, phonemes, syllables and neologisms which prompted a rendering that relies on Englishizing the text. The results are textured, staccato pages that proceed, quite literally, as the original text dictated to the ears of each poet-translator. With any homophonic realization, there is a constant tension between the automatic associations which instantly fill one’s head and the deeper body of poetic language lurking in the spaces between words. The results are here, the shifting, unstable tectonics of sound and sense in Of Fracture.