Jiji

By Lily Robert-Foley

Jiji tells the story of two tragic lovers : the signifier and the signified;aching to be together yet doomed to remain apart. Like lovers flirt, the language in Jiji flirts with breaking its bond with the reader. The text erodes, drawing farther and farther from accessible reading. Falling in love is the story of learning to read a new code. A broken heart is the story of unlearning normale codes. In Jiji, the lovers create a new way of making text called ? machines ? : conceptual poetry devices intended to read and study language by revealing and rewriting structures implicit in reappropriated texts to create new texts and rinse, lather, repeat. When the machines begin, the orthographic modifications stop; the end begins. Be brave, reader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692693068
• ISBN13: 9780692693063
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Omnia Vanitas Review
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 8.5"