ŘŌBÔÉTÀ, the book, is a paean and an invitation to new reading rituals.
ŘŌBÔÉTÀ, the fictional poet of Brooklyn Yards, put the theatricality of reading (and writing, of course) in motion! Indeed, through various texts and co-writing with yours truly…
ŘŌBÔÉTÀ ushers in a different form of literary emergence.
(And that itself is polemical—) Indeed, a poetics of textual emergence is generated through
the scriptural strategies, one that radically transforms the literary experience. With the tools used and
the mark-making and the sequencing, the unfinished words and sentences and
text can look like a foreign language until they all coalesce and become a whole. A new form of emergence—and
thus, new ways of reading. New speeds of, and for, reading. New expectations and rituals of reading: a new reading
experience. I invite you to new forms of literary emergence and to a new ritual for reading, and a new consciousness
around the possibilities of linguistic and textual representations and
alphabetically constructed worldvisions! (from ŘŌBÔÉTÀ)