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Contents
- The Cupboardi"I'd shut myself in the cupboard directly beneath the work-bench", single work poetry
- Sacred Sitei"It's easy to see that this clearing is important to someone, for", single work poetry
- Thoughtsi"Those trees in the distance have gone through so many", single work poetry
- Duende in Dulwich Hilli"Exhausted with intensity, they move through", single work poetry
- Americai"In Minneapolis the water tastes of chlorine, bleached out", single work poetry
- Green Hexagonsi"[First line removed at the request of Coral Hull]", single work poetry
- Researchi"It was always dinner then a film", single work poetry
- When I Consideri"When I consider what my life has been", single work poetry
- Who Praise Youi"When I see his face it's as if it were always there", single work poetry
- Unidentified Birdi"Night parcel unidentified bird", single work poetry
- Untitled : (from The Shadow's Keep)i"and a pendulum and am loving", extract poetry
- Untitled : (from The Shadow's Keep)i"the two of us worked in a boat once, just to keep our sized", extract poetry
- How Like Youi"How like you, cholera,", single work poetry
- Holes and Starsi"I just got my memory back.", single work poetry
- Carousel, single work short story
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Her Shy Banjoi"Rain, without it there can be no September music",
single work
poetry
Several pages of poems written by John Asbery typed as one continuous text and put through a computer program (Neil J. Rubenking's 'Brekdown' ) to re-assemble in a different form. Both the title and the author's name are anagrams of John Asbery .Note: Audio and text versions available at this site.
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Mr. Rubenking's 'Breakdown'[sic] : The Utilisation of Digital Computers in the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Writing
'Dogs in All the Unregarded Bales' : Mr Rubenking's 'Breakdown' [sic],
single work
prose
'BrekDown' is a text analysis and text generation program written in Turbo Pascal for IBM-compatible personal computers, devised in 1985 by the San Francisco programmer Neil J. Rubenking. 'Brekdown' can also blend the styles of two or more texts, and reconstruct a text with the characteristics of this blended style.
The article is accompanied by two examples of this 'robot poetry' - 'What Mortal End' and 'Her Shy Banjo' derived from the works of Matthew Arnold and John Ashbery respectively. Both the titles of these poems and the names of their authors are anagrams of the real poets' names. John Tranter has also written seven prose pieces using this technique, in each case blending two writers into one new creature. They appear in Different Hands (1998).
Note: With alternative title. - Someone Will Comei"On the water", single work poetry
- The Law of Broccolii"is like the law of yellow flowers", single work poetry
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What Mortal Endi"Those quick inventive brains, who with early distant",
single work
poetry
Three poems written by Matthew Arnold ('The Buried Life', 'Dover Beach', and 'The Scholar-Gypsy') typed as one continuous text and put through a computer program (Neil J. Rubenking's 'Brekdown' ) to re-assemble in a different form. Both the title and the author's name are anagrams of Matthew Arnold.