‘Pound Delete’ by Volodymyr Bilyk.

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Volodymyr Bilyk is a writer, translator from Ukraine. He writes in English because he wants to prove that poetry is beyond any languages.

His works include: visual poems in the series This is Visual Poetry (2013), CIMESA (2013), Casio’s Pay-Off Peyote (2013), SCOBES (2013), THINGS (2014), Laugh Poems (2014), Vispo Ay Ai Ay (2014), “To When Tea Ties Hence to Wank It Too” / “Eminent Means of Basil Dado Hem-Welt” in The Chapbook 5 (2015), “Heartbeat, Footclick, Machine Gun Vocalizes” (2016), Understanding (of language) are not enough (2016).

Statement:

Pound Delete is a kind of a thing that Mr. Pound would have appreciated. It started several months ago after i’ve discoreved Deletionist tool. It’s a fun thing but it is too limited to really chop and screw the texts. Aside from occassional occurrences of brialliance - it is not particularly useful. But while random surfing through Poetry Foundation site and clicking Deletionist on various poems i’ve stumbled upon some Pound’s stuff and it was processed rather differently from the other poems. I’ve discovered that sometimes tool leaves just parts of the words. And it looked like a legit sound poem. And that pushed me to think about Pounds concept of music. I thought there’s some music hidden in these words and i needed to set it free. In order to find it i’ve scanned few texts through text analyzer. It gave me few ideas but it wasn’t particulary helpful. And so i’ve screencapped his poetry collection Lustra and manually erased the majority of words leaving only some combinations of sounds - thus unleashing the music hidden in Pound’s poetry.

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