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Making Sense From Nonsense
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ISBN10: 1038309794
ISBN13: 9781038309792
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Feb 26 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.61 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781038309792
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Feb 26 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.61 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For war
Correct and normal posture is:
Scoliotic spine fixed in alignment with adopted language
Shoulders slouching under symbolic statistics
Head forward neck perfect for pain
Not standing up against the costs
Sitting down like a desk worker fostering the process
Virtue sleeping
Its fire cliparted
Straddling the boundaries between human creativity and AI, between sense and nonsense, between text and pictures, Making Sense From Nonsense is a unique book of experimental poetry crafted from words generated by Google's algorithm, and illustrated with full-colour AI art.
Powerful poems and illustrations are rife with meaning, whether that's a meaning plucked from the reader's mind or from the poet's. Divided into four sections, poems have a wide variety of styles. The landscapes they describe range from the gothic/fantasy splendour of The Magical (A Medieval song streams from the crypt/Like a curtain of night fog/ Tracking dew upon the spider webs) to an often absurd present in Reality (Sweet Myrtle lays them down wisely/Her crispy potato chip collection). In The Absurd Reality of Violence, poems address wartime, the migrant crisis, and much more besides.
As the author notes in the introduction, the best aspect of this collection of poems is that you need to figure out for yourself where the Nonsense stops, and the truth begins.
Correct and normal posture is:
Scoliotic spine fixed in alignment with adopted language
Shoulders slouching under symbolic statistics
Head forward neck perfect for pain
Not standing up against the costs
Sitting down like a desk worker fostering the process
Virtue sleeping
Its fire cliparted
Straddling the boundaries between human creativity and AI, between sense and nonsense, between text and pictures, Making Sense From Nonsense is a unique book of experimental poetry crafted from words generated by Google's algorithm, and illustrated with full-colour AI art.
Powerful poems and illustrations are rife with meaning, whether that's a meaning plucked from the reader's mind or from the poet's. Divided into four sections, poems have a wide variety of styles. The landscapes they describe range from the gothic/fantasy splendour of The Magical (A Medieval song streams from the crypt/Like a curtain of night fog/ Tracking dew upon the spider webs) to an often absurd present in Reality (Sweet Myrtle lays them down wisely/Her crispy potato chip collection). In The Absurd Reality of Violence, poems address wartime, the migrant crisis, and much more besides.
As the author notes in the introduction, the best aspect of this collection of poems is that you need to figure out for yourself where the Nonsense stops, and the truth begins.
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