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Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependdence on ritual.


Here you can see the Tasman Bridge as seen from the CSIRO building down in Battery Point.

Now here is an experimental poem!

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KL said…
Have you read the book Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry by Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon? The book came out recently in last year or so. One of the author is a mathematician and the other is a prof of Literature. I don't know if it is available yet outside the US. If you get it, give it a go. I really liked the book because I never knew that there exists poems which are called puzzle or labyrinth poems. Or that there exist poem which are known as shaped and spiral poems. Wow!

Your poem here seems like a puzzle poem. I need to separate them out to get the words. I have been trying but not succeeded yet. Am I in the right direction? Or is this something else?
Kris McCracken said…
KL, you can figure it out, I'm sure!
KL said…
ideas need some thing in work I order to

Those must be the words of your poem (am I right?), but then I cannot make the sentence out of it...grrr...ok, good excuse - English is not my tongue.

Ok, this is absolutely lovely. Come on, give us some more puzzles to work on.
Patrice said…
ideas need something in order to work

in order to work I need some ideas

things need some ideas in order to work

ideas need some things in order to work

some things need ideals in order to work

??
Say, what?

Getting close?
Kris McCracken said…
KL, who would have thought it would be so challenging!
Kris McCracken said…
Patrice, all are correct.

Once the poem is out, the author is dead.

Long live the reader!

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