I really want to take this class
881.01 Individual Vision: Poetry Machines Thurs 1235-320pm Paul Hoover
This graduate process class will focus on the use of formalist and constructivist methods in the creation of poetry including both traditional and innovative forms, cut-ups and computer randomization, collaborative procedures, aleatory composition, Oulipo, Flarf, and software programs such as Travesty and Janus Node designed for such writing. Students will be encouraged to allow for a wide range of production including lyrical and narrative poems and to explore what Jackson Mac Low called “intuitive composition.” Among other craft assignments, students will invent at least one unique poetry machine, or method, of their own.
This graduate process class will focus on the use of formalist and constructivist methods in the creation of poetry including both traditional and innovative forms, cut-ups and computer randomization, collaborative procedures, aleatory composition, Oulipo, Flarf, and software programs such as Travesty and Janus Node designed for such writing. Students will be encouraged to allow for a wide range of production including lyrical and narrative poems and to explore what Jackson Mac Low called “intuitive composition.” Among other craft assignments, students will invent at least one unique poetry machine, or method, of their own.
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Johannes
Gary: I'm sure it's the same program. And I didn't know you lived in San Francisco.
What interests me most in this is the creation of a writing machine. And the parallels between Flarf and OuLiPo (their use of algorithms that leads to a study of language, such as in Katie Degentesh's The Anger Scale). And how I will find a way to use the Fourier Transform. Ah! So many things to think about.
I'm gonna have to go see if I can find me a downloadable Travesty now ...