{"id":2965,"date":"2013-01-07T22:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2013-01-07T23:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T04:36:20","slug":"code-poetry-intersect-in-a-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/code-poetry-intersect-in-a-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Code, Poetry Intersect in a Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this episode of Poetry Corner with Guido, Guido the python shares a Gertrude Stein poem titled Sacred Emily.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

Jared Nielsen, thanks to his schooling in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry,<\/a> his ability as a programmer, and his recent creation of a puppet, has developed an amazing conflation of Gertrude Stein, the Python programming language, and the Wonder Showzen<\/i> episode “Patience.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Nielsen has been recreating famous American poems in Python or so that they are about Python, as in “The Red Wheelbarrow”<\/a> and “Song of Myself.”<\/a><\/p>\n

His project parallels that of P\u00e1ll Thayer along two dimensions: Thayer, in his series Microcodes,<\/i><\/a> presents short programs in Perl (not Python) that often recreate famous artworks (not poems), for instance Vito Acconci’s Seedbed<\/i><\/a> and Jasper Johns’s Flag.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

We must admit, however, that Thayer does not employ a puppet named after Larry Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this episode of Poetry Corner with Guido, Guido the python shares a Gertrude Stein poem titled Sacred Emily. Jared Nielsen, thanks to his schooling in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, his ability as a programmer, and his recent creation of a puppet, has developed an amazing conflation of Gertrude Stein, the Python programming language, … <\/p>\n

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