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20 Jun 2018 Conversations with Tyler Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond
“I hope we will regather to us, that we will cherish more the things about us that are just human.”
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- Elisa New
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- 20 Jun 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think we’ll learn anything from applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to poetry? Or do you view that as a dead end? I do view it as a dead end. Certainly we will learn something, but it is our humanity that poetry most meaningfully serves. It’s our humanity. It’s our unique intelligence that our language holds. I hope we will regather to us, that we will cherish more the things about us that are just human. As you may know, Emily Dickinson once wrote that she would read backwards the poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, maybe to de-familiarize herself with them in some way. Should we memorize poems, or does this take away their daring and surprise? There are some Bob Dylan songs you don’t want to listen to too many times. Are poems the same?…
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