Jena Osman has written six books of poetry, including Motion Studies, Corporate Relations, and Public Figures. A Very Large Array: Selected Poems was published by DABA Press in October, 2023.
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Authors | Jena Osman
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QUIPU PROCEDURE
This piece is a textual quipu, where sequences of knots (in the form of footnotes) connect [1] an ancient data collection technology as used by the poet-artist Cecilia Vicuna to [2] contemporary algorithms that collect and sort the data produced by living bodies to [3] glitches in machine translation algorithms. It is recommended that you click on the footnotes as you come upon them.