Here is Douglas J. Luman’s #RemixReallySystem piece, based on this chunk of text.
Deterioration as Philosophic Method: Grammatical Theory of Insubstantiality
after Rem Koolhaas
past radio tragic / to describe that light / o, beginning
of century / not fires, not / fade, hermetic shell / quiet
solipsism nests in spaces / tag at seams / sentences
spelt
p-i-n-e-s / we wept pretty
Note on process:
- The poem is a complete anagram of the words sent &
- Was found in Rem Koolhaas’ book Delirious New York (I’ve included the citation in Chicago format below)
- The title is from the letter pool as well, though not every letter is used in the title (only enough to get the piece to be cohesive)
Citation:
Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York: Monacelli Press, 1994.
An excerpt of Douglas J. Luman‘s Star/formation appeared in Issue Four. He is the Book Reviews editor for the Found Poetry Review, an intern at the Chicago School of Poetics, and an MFA candidate at George Mason University. He is sleeping in a library somewhere in Northern Virginia. Follow him on Twitter @douglasjluman, or at http://www.douglasjluman.com