[In our hemispheric anthology of the Americas (from origins to present), Javier Taboada and I are including this pioneer work of computer-generated poetry for a section of “extensions” beyond our normative ideas of poetry that begins with pre-Columbian hieroglyphics and moves on from there to the here-and-now. Our work-in-progress will be published by the University of California Press in the next year or two. (J.R.)]
[Recent work by Eliot Cardineax turns a new twist on Robert Duncan’s dictum: “I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters.” In his derivations from Celan and Mandelstam, along with the author’s note attached thereto, Cardineaux’s poetry and poetics stands as a refutation, too, to Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” as a necessary foundation for strong poets and strong poetry.
Poems and poetics