[New-Poetry] Pirates

Robin Hamilton robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com
Sat Oct 4 11:54:19 EDT 2008


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Ultimately, whose poems are these?  Were they authored by these guys?  If 
so, look how they've gotten published poets to read their work.

Being unknown allows one not to worry about who gets pissed off at a person. 
And now we're thinking and talking about their poems.  Fairly clever --  
times three thousand.

Best,
Amy
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The consensus of the comments on the Poetry Foundation seems to be that the 
texts were produced by a poetry generating program.

In which case, not even the authors or "authors" will have read more than 
the ones attached to their own names.

Imagine the tedium of reading through 3000+ pages of computer-generated 
twaddle.

            :-(((

Oh, well, as it's all electronic, at least no trees were sacrificed in the 
production of this epic.

Robin 




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