Deep code

"In Deep Code, John Coletti explores "side language," as a subset of other languages, whether slang or metaphor, to communicate and obfuscate. With a fragmentation more cubist than language poetry, Coletti portrays urban experience, from power relations and personal loss to nights among city dwellers fashioning language into something both recognizable and mysterious.John Coletti is the author of the book Mum Halo (2010) and the chapbooks Same Enemy Rainbow (2008) and Physical Kind (2005). With Anselm Berrigan, he is the author of the limited edition Skasers (2012). He has served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and co-edits Open 24 Hours Press. Other projects include a collaborative print with artist Kiki Smith, a chapbook collaboration with Shana Moulton, and a libretto for Excelsior, an opera composed by Caleb Burhans commissioned by Chicago's Fifth House Ensemble which premiered in 2013. "--