dublinka

Collaboration between poet and machine has been around for a while now. Gnoetry is one example. To quote the blurb from Beard of Bees. "Gnoetry synthesizes language randomly based on its analysis of existing texts. Any machine-readable text or texts, in any language, can serve as the basis of the Gnoetic process. Gnoetry generates sentences that mimic the local statistical properties of the source texts. This language is filtered subject to additional constraints (syllable counts, rhyming, etc.) to produce a poem". The results from one Eric Elshtain and Gnoetry is calledThe Dublin of Doctor Moreau, and used the statistical properties of James Joyce’s Dubliners and H. G. Wells’ The Island of DoctorMoreau to create 32 blank verse, 16-line quatrains. The technique has lots of potential, but perhaps Eric hasn't. The poem is all over the place. Take this awful sample:

It was a poet’s soul revolted him;
the creature did the proper kind of snow.
The quarry was a disappointed man.
This country has remembered what Moreau