{"id":3887,"date":"2014-08-20T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2014-08-21T00:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:30:35","slug":"the-mutable-stanzas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/08\/the-mutable-stanzas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mutable Stanzas<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday first-person-shooter Borges,<\/a> intimate, infinite, and based on prose; today cut-up Spenser, mutable and poetic.<\/p>\n

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This dynamic digital poetry piece,<\/a> by Stephen Pentecost, is quite compelling. The author writes:<\/p>\n

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The Mutable Stanzas<\/i> is a digital poetry installation and deformance experiment inspired by Raymond Queneau’s Cent Mille Milliards de Po\u00e8mes,<\/i> by the work by Jerome McGann et al on “Deformance and Interpretation,” and by the work of my collegues in the Humanities Digital Workshop.<\/p>\n

The Mutable Stanzas<\/i> disassembles Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene<\/i> into its constituent lines, groups lines according to terminal rhyme, then randomly reassembles lines into new stanzas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While the stanzas are structured by end rhyme, and each line is not independent of others, I wonder, as a reader, whether it’s best to avail myself of the pause button or whether I should simply continue reading down the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday first-person-shooter Borges, intimate, infinite, and based on prose; today cut-up Spenser, mutable and poetic. This dynamic digital poetry piece, by Stephen Pentecost, is quite compelling. The author writes: The Mutable Stanzas is a digital poetry installation and deformance experiment inspired by Raymond Queneau’s Cent Mille Milliards de Po\u00e8mes, by the work by Jerome McGann … <\/p>\n

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