Blessing and cursing, Power of
Fall of aerolites
Somerset omen, The
Dream of a child, Warning given in the
Causation, The law of
Artist Statement:
These digital-visual poems collage found language with imagery created via artificial intelligence (AI). They represent a human-machine collaboration across process, media, and technology. Language I collect from a separate research project into burial practices, ritual cannibalism, and spiritualism serves as text for the poems and as textual input for the AI’s algorithm. The AI then builds artwork from the textual input, using background imagery I have curated as a seed.
In addition, poems in this selection draw language from the penny dreadful serial, The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance, by Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer, and use entries from the general index of The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural, by Frederick George Lee, as their titles.
Francesco Levato is a poet, a literary translator, and a new media artist. Recent books include SCARLET (forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil); Arsenal/Sin Documentos; Endless, Beautiful, Exact; Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug; Creaturing (as translator); and the chapbooks A Continuum of Force and jettison/collapse. He has collaborated and performed with various composers, including Philip Glass, and his cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Poetry, a PhD in English Studies, and is currently an Associate Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.