taxonomic drift

I thought I had died & ascended to the heathens when I read this book. So excited to discover that adherents to — practitioners of, yet — the poésie maudit that I espoused are still active, even if they are living in some far-flung geography like Patagonia or North Queensland or Novaya Zemlya, & even if the technology they embrace & write about has moved past sewing machines & umbrellas & into realms that I, in my wildest moments, could not have imagined. I am in love! — Isadore Ducasse, author of Les Chants de Maldoror. MARK YOUNG is a poet, visual poet, and the Editor of OTOLITHS.