Edwin Torres

The Popedology of an Ambient Language Edwin Torres

Poetry. Using ambient language-fragments, excerpts, stage directions, echoes, conversation snippets, syntactic undulation, and rigorous sonic chaos-Edwin Torres creates an alchemy of language, what he calls electrobabble and algorithmictotem. Amid the fast-paced frenzy of his lyrical style, Torres finds an excited reason for hope and purpose: one by one/ the rhythmic yuwanna/ will climb the fearist/ the murmuring yugottit/ will find the liminal/ the metronomed howboutit/ will catch the kicker. Amid such restless verbal motion, things will happen, things must happen; as order will emerge from disorder, a sense of calm gradually suffuses THE POPEDOLOGY OF AN AMBIENT LANGUAGE. This all impossible/ But I appear it on page, so/ Becomes possible on way-through page.