Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular is a poetry collection that asks ‘How many times can you rewrite a poem?’ Using the experimental techniques of the Oulipo group and more allegedly modern technologies, Daryl Lim rewrites a poem over and over again, to exhaustion, exhilaration, and states in between. Daryl collages text. He shadow-boxes with LLMs. He paints. He translates profanely. This boundaryless, genre-bending journey mixes up the signifier and the signified, the source and the target. Buckle up.
Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 is a poet, translator and editor from Singapore. His second collection of poetry, Anything but Human, was a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised two anthologies: Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which received a Special Award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards; and The Second Link, a collection of Singapore and Malaysian writing about the unique relationship between the two countries, shortlisted for Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards. In 2023, he was awarded the Young Artist Award, Singapore’s highest honour for young art practitioners. He is currently working on the video gaming anthology, Free to Play.

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