Broken Pencil

Translanguaging

Reviewed by LB Sedlacek

Experimental language poems await in this book by Le.  He uses an original approach to linguistics putting it into poetry.  Styles vary, but the word play is amazing.  Interesting graphics intercede sporadically.  There is such a wondrous energy and a love of words and how they are put together.  This book is quite a surprise, not to mention completely original.  From the poem “celestial objects”: I / angeless radio overture / ghost-breaches semantic-contact— / Jaden-ma’s tongued-antenna / sixth-senses moonlight-seizure— / ufo tele-linguist hacker / aliased Howler Boy. this darknet / codebreaker info-leaks / blacksite web crawlers— / Jaden-ma’s abecedarian-error query.