Postmodern: An Anagrammatic Slideshow Fiction

Postmodern: An Anagrammatic Slideshow Fiction is "a multimedia prose-poem/playlet in the form of an slideshow in which three low-life characters interact in a contemporary urban underworld of porn shops and authoritarian threats. The text, embedded in a powerpoint-style visual narrative of original images and graphs, is composed exclusively from anagrams found within the word 'postmodern.' The Vassar Review, where Postmodern first appeared in 2017, described it as a 'gleefully illustrated glidepath through the remnants of language that trail beyond the (littoral, literal) 'postmodern' like the tail of a forlorn freeform comix comet . . . . an eschatological imagetext mashup of demon storm troops, pert rodents, and skidrow resident poets, porn purveyors, and sperm donors via Flickr borrowings, Wiki burrowings, and whole tons of homebrew images bluesily rendered.' Critic Michael Tratner said that the piece 'mocks beautifully one theory of postmodernism — that there are only texts, no references' because 'the perfect way to say you can't get beyond texts is to say you can't get beyond the letters in any one word as the 'meaning' of that word.'" -- Richard Holeton