The Fabulous Op

The title of our book, The Fabulous Op has nothing whatsoever to do with its anagrams, "about hopefuls" or "hub of foetal soup," "Uh, upbeat fools," "push taboo fuel," or even, "Afoul pub ethos." Rather, it is a collaborative poem which we-uh, upbeat fools-began by asking our social media contacts to post lines of poetry that they keep memorized, wanting the project to be grounded in the soil of the brain, the canon of the individual as sieved through their experience. We considered how the transmission of DNA is affected by the experiences of those who it both creates and describes through epigenetic processes. We imagined the canon (and our culture) to be a kind of genetic code who's transmission is similarly affected by "the experiences of those who it both creates and describes" (unacknowledged source).