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An Experiment
in Fractal Poetics
Fractals are self-similar shapes that recur in ever smaller versions of themselves in a balance of order and variability (think cauliflower). The pleasure that humans feel when they see fractals in nature is of interest to us as poets. Is it possible for poets to write fractal poems?
p0_EM Stein1
p0_EM Stein1 was the first Poetry Plasmid DNA Extraction experiment that Cathenka-Willitts carried out in March 2018. It used Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as source 'cells' and produced the very first batch of poetry plasmid.
Read the poetic essay which explains our
experiment below.
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