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Courtney Huse Wika, Daniel May

Bridges

2017

Inspired by various forms of multiple-choice literature, we composed poetry over a balanced directed graph and examined the combinatorics of this poetry. The directed graph poses interesting questions about internal logic in poetry, and offers a number of challenges in construction; it asks us to examine not just what the poem means, but how it means. The multiple choice theatre of the graph creates multiplicities in the poem’s call-and-answer, and challenges readers’ ideas of concrete meaning.