“"..To climb the edge of the wind, to draw and erase, to become half-clever, to make islands from cardboard, to see and unsee, to make millions and own islands. To keep it together to scatter into pieces, to be somewhere at some time. To feel the graph of death, to move fast, so fast that you are held still."
- Excerpt from the foreword
"Line of Sight" is a collection of experimental poetry by Ali Eslami, exploring the interplay of emotions and memories. The work is written as codes representing the writer's thoughts during his mandatory military service in Iran. These code-poems are designed as pieces of code that can be read, interpreted, and compiled by the reader, inviting them to decode and piece together a disrupted and fragmented self.
Departing from Eslami's background in virtual reality and film, the collection emerged from a deep-seated need to express the inexpressible. Through a mixture of poems, codes, ASCII pictograms, and absurdist stories, the author captures the struggle of existing between two worlds —the diasporic reality of life between present-day Amsterdam and the evocative echoes of Iran's past and present, narrated through the dual voices of introspection and projection.”
A collection of experimental prose and poems in which the digital meets the personal, illustrated with ASCII art, text in English and Persian.
Soft cover, 21 x 15 cm, 82 not numbered pages, Amsterdam 2024
ISBN: 9789090390741
