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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles O. HartmanPublisher: University Press of New England Imprint: Wesleyan University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780819522399ISBN 10: 0819522392 Pages: 164 Publication Date: 20 October 1996 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsIn 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 Booklist 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 Booklist 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 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 Author InformationCHARLES O. HARTMAN is Professor of English and Poet in residence at Connecticut College, author of Glass Enclosure (Wesleyan Poetry, 1995) and Jazz Text (1991), and coauthor of Sentences (1995). His prose program is available on the World Wide Web. Hartman's memoirs about how computer programming helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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