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The Button Jar: A Poetry Parody

The Button Jar: A Poetry Parody

Hicks, Lewis
Golden, Claire

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798590747115
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 1 2021
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Poetry is an art form that can never be replicated by computers...right? That's what Claire thought, too, until she encountered Gertrude Stein's modernist poetry in her quest to obtain an English degree. The collection Tender Buttons destroyed her last two brain cells, and she could make neither head nor tail of what she felt to be nonsensical jumbles of words.

Teaming up with STEM major Lewis, the two created a program called the Gertrude Stein Generator that produced poems modeled after those in Tender Buttons. This collection details the creation of said program along with 100 of the best poems produced by it, with accompanying illustrations (they made Claire take an art class for her degree, too).

Claire and Lewis now collectively hold Bachelor's degrees in English, French, Math, and Physics and remain unconvinced that modernist poetry cannot be written by computers. But why don't you give it a read and decide for yourself?

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