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    repeater

    By Andrew McEwan

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GERALD LAMPAND MEMORIAL AWARD

    repeater is a poetic investigation into the coding, function, language, and structure of computer programming. Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code as an acrostic, each lower-case letter of the alphabet is arranged alongside the lines of the title poem. As a result, this poem "programs" an investigation of layered and digitalized language that is coded into the heart of the code itself. Appendixes to this code form supplementary studies, and deviate into additional problems and concepts at the convergence of poetry and computer programming. Ultimately, repeater reveals what happens when the creative variability of poetry is "inputted" into the rigid binaric structure of computer language.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookThug
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781927040133
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    Andrew McEwan

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      repeater - Andrew McEwan

      repeater

      FIRST EDITION

      copyright © Andrew McEwan, 2012

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of The Canada Council for The Arts and The Ontario Arts Council.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada

      Cataloguing in Publication

      McEwan, Andrew

      repeater / Andrew McEwan.

      Poems.

      ISBN 978-1-927040-13-3

      I. Title.

      PS8625.E93R46 2012     C811’.6     C2012-901064-2 

      table of contents

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      appendices

      appendix a

      the impossble architecture of every character

      appendix b

      error language

      appendix c

      either / or

      appendix d

      functions of variable data

      appendix e

      pretext: embodied standard

      acknowledgements

      ASCII is not art. It’s a code, a way of hiding things within smaller things…The codes covered here are the beginning of a crude alphabet for our new machines’ pidgin, a baby language, for better or worse, mindlessly mumbled sub-atomic particles of thought.

      – Tom Jennings

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      a

      0     people wake as birds stream in formation

      1     movement primes the character of progression

      1     folds

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