Zipp Toto

Come See Zipp Toto

A found computer tower. A missing editor. In Apartment 9b, fairies from all over the world have migrated to feast on the poems of Patti Puffinease--only to tend to torture, derision, erasure, and silence. In Zipp Toto's graduate thesis, when the literary world of poets was split into Spoken Word vs. Page Poets, Come See seeks to have them dance together. The literal and the oral overlap, two wings to the same sweet bird, in the flight known as poetry. This is a companion piece to The Vidyodhara: a factocritical fractal; a critical exploration into the realms of belief, language, and imagination. The thesis to end all thesis. An anti-thesis. Zipp Toto (aka Andre Rodrigues), graduated with an MA in English from the University of Calgary, was managing editor of dANDelion, produced a collection of short films, SALT: films from the Hair, and is in the band, Moon, Moon, No Moon.