In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and -- illustrated with sample computer-produced verses -- traces the development of more advanced hardware and software. The central question about this cyber-partnership, Hartman says, ""isn't exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting."" He examines the effects of randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency on poetic composition, concluding that ""the tidy dance among poet and text and reader creates a game of hesitation. In this game, a properly programmed computer has a chance to slip in some interesting moves.
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"In this fascinating book, Hartman explores what he has learned of human poetry by attempting to create computer programs and, further, by attempting to write a simple poem-a dialogue of mind and body-with a computer as compositional partner . . . An absorbing, authoritative, and astonishingly accessible book."-- "Booklist"
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In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and --illustrating his book with sample computer-produced verses-traces the development of more advanced hardware and software.
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- PublisherWesleyan University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0819522392
- ISBN 13 9780819522399
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages164
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