Online Imagination
Summer 2011 · Vol. 34 No. 1
Rachel Zolf speaks about her recent online poetry project, “The Tolerance Project.” Jonathan Ball and Colin Smith discuss parasitic poetry, procedural techniques, and flarf.
online content from this issue
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- An Interview with Jonathan Ball Colin Smith: Jonathan, you preface your book-length poem Ex Machina with a quote from the Victorian satiric novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler: “Man’s very soul is due to the machines, it is a machine-made thing: he thinks as he thinks, and feels as he feels, through the work that machines have wrought upon him, and their existence is quite as much a sine qua non for his, as his for theirs.” Given that ...
- Poem 39 – A tongue listens to a war Driven out of Lebanon warm air opens the lines / Slow moving vowels grip glottal, we pucker / Hiss of splayed ...
- When the Dead Outnumber the Living When the dead outnumber the living they will spill forth from purgatory and come back to / reclaim their condos. ...
- Into the mouths of payphones Night after night through cities and villages / she says his name: / Amsterdam, Namur, in Paris, / ...
- [sic] sic is an extremely simple irc client. Don’t take this personally. It consists of less than 250 / lines of code. ...
- [07] It is all a dream. [28] / / An angel arrives. [49] / / Reinforcements penetrate. [38] / / ...
- [02] The book that you read, seeking something. [60] / / The book that you write, to discover. [52] / / ...