Poetics as artistic practice and worldmaking practitioners from Bernadette Mayer and Sky Hopinka to Liliane Lijn and Shanzhai Lyric explore the wilder parapoetic shores of languageThrough work by artists and poets of various generations and geographies as well as additional thinkers and artistic contributors SIREN considers the ways in which language is increasingly employed by artists in works that trouble the line between language as a literary practice and language as a visual one. Both human and nonhuman forms of languagemaking and poetics are insisted upon from precolonial myth to scientific speculation fungal networks to gut bacteria text to textile poem to algorithm.Contributors include Ruth Estvez Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot Don Mee Choi Anas Duplan Katja Aufleger Patricia L. Boyd Bia Davou Sky Hopinka Liliane Lijn Bernadette Mayer Rosemary Mayer Nour Mobarak Senga Nengudi Rivane Neuenschwander Mayra A.