{"product_id":"the-complete-stein-poems-19982003-isbn-9780262552868","title":"The Complete Stein Poems, 1998-2003","description":"\u003cb\u003eA landmark publication in computer-generated poetry drawn from the works of Gertrude Stein.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Stein poems of Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) were written between 1998 and 2003. Comprising more than 500 pages of text, this edited series of 161 poems—most of them never published—is the poet’s last great work, composed during the final years of a lifetime of prolific creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe raw material of each poem was produced through Mac Low’s diastic text-selection method of reading through passages of either Ulla E. Dydo’s \u003ci\u003eA Stein Reader\u003c\/i\u003e or a corrected version of Gertrude Stein’s \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e. Guided by Charles O. Hartman’s 1994 DIASTEX5 computer program, which replicates the diastic method first developed by Mac Low in 1963, the process requires that words be drawn sequentially from the source text in accordance with their rule-driven, algorithmic correspondence with a seed text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken as a whole, these poems are a breathtaking invitation to the reader into a space of creative possibilities and unforeseen encounters.Series Foreword\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eAnne Tardos\u003cbr\u003e“This shining makes revision of a string more strange”: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eMichael O’Driscoll\u003cbr\u003eA Talk about My Writingways\u003cbr\u003eJackson Mac Low\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eStein 1: Little Beginning\u003cbr\u003eStein 2: Pleasant Regular Neat and Gave That Much More\u003cbr\u003eStein 3: Little Lingering Pudding\u003cbr\u003eStein 4: Little Open Place\u003cbr\u003eStein 5: Father Soils\u003cbr\u003eStein 6: The Big Stay Away\u003cbr\u003eStein 7: Very Pleasant Soiling\u003cbr\u003eStein 8: Big Bites\u003cbr\u003eStein 9: Begin a Piece Of the Whole\u003cbr\u003eStein 10: The Whole Matter Is Better Half-Filled There than Here\u003cbr\u003eStein 11: And Sing More Very Loudly\u003cbr\u003eStein 12: Use and Choose\u003cbr\u003eStein 13: Green Completers So\u003cbr\u003eStein 14: Meaning Was Certainly Always This Him\u003cbr\u003eStein 15: And One That Clear\u003cbr\u003eStein 16: One Completely\u003cbr\u003eStein 17: Always One’s Others’\u003cbr\u003eStein 18: Time That Something Something\u003cbr\u003eStein 19: Time Be We Going Then\u003cbr\u003eStein 20: Time to Be We\u003cbr\u003eStein 21: Time Pleases Understanding\u003cbr\u003eStein 22: Then What Thing Might Be?\u003cbr\u003eStein 23: Seat That One End\u003cbr\u003eStein 24: Stay There That One Sing\u003cbr\u003eStein 25: Something She Had Was Dancing\u003cbr\u003eStein 26: It Is a Difficult Thing Continuing\u003cbr\u003eStein 27: Enough of Them Who Walk Come Again\u003cbr\u003eStein 28: When He Came Again He Would Say What He Had Just Been Wearing\u003cbr\u003eStein 29: When is Enough?\u003cbr\u003eStein 30: Some Did Not See Who Had Come\u003cbr\u003e.....\u003cbr\u003eStein 142\/Titles 37: Hurt Stranger\u003cbr\u003eStein 143\/Titles 38: A Blind Cousin? No.\u003cbr\u003eStein 144\/Titles 39: Victory’s Saving Bent Was Kind of Green And Very Rudimentary\u003cbr\u003eStein 145\/Titles 40: Is of in Obligation Exchange\u003cbr\u003eStein 146\/Titles 41: Glass Resembling Yesterday\u003cbr\u003eStein 147\/Titles 42: A Different Red Resigning\u003cbr\u003eStein 148\/Titles 43: Not a Single Spectacle in That Show Was Quite Visible\u003cbr\u003eStein 149\/Titles 44: Ordinary Buttons Hurt the Plates\u003cbr\u003eStein 150\/Titles 45: likely difference grinding suggesting\u003cbr\u003eStein 151\/Titles 46: What Torches?\u003cbr\u003eStein 152\/Titles 47: Scatter the Occasion\u003cbr\u003eStein 153\/Titles 48: That Tender Spectacle Is Bitter\u003cbr\u003eStein 154\/Titles 49: Groan, Redwood Pressed Together\u003cbr\u003eStein 155\/Titles 50: Even Kindness Can Be Distant Noise\u003cbr\u003eStein 156\/Titles 51: Mercy No More\u003cbr\u003eStein 157\/Titles 52: Hurting Colors Pleasing Crackers\u003cbr\u003eStein 158: Is Has Breakfast The\u003cbr\u003eStein 159\/Titles 53: That Orange\u003cbr\u003eStein 160\/Titles 54: Is Adventure Feeling Being Connected with Others?\u003cbr\u003eStein 161\/Titles 55: Disappointing Not Sweet Redness\u003cbr\u003eEditing the Stein Poems\u003cbr\u003eBy Michael O’Driscoll\u003cbr\u003eNotes and Acknowledgements“In his inventive interactions with Gertrude Stein on one side and his computer on the other, Mac Low brought Stein’s modernist word composition into the digital twenty-first century. Michael O’Driscoll’s commendable edition now makes these marvelous works fully accessible to artists and scholars.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tyrus Miller, Distinguished Professor of Art History and English, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A must for anybody interested in experimental poetry.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rosmarie Waldrop, poet, translator, editor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘What are Masterpieces?’ The \u003ci\u003eStein Poems\u003c\/i\u003e are the culminating achievement of Mac Low’s ‘writingways,’ a refunctioning of Stein’s oeuvre by algorithmic and human decisions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Barrett Watten, poet and critic, Wayne State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jackson Mac Low’s love affair with Gertude Stein’s minimalist language alchemy defies comparison. This collection is a cut-up of echoes with teeth, tenacity, homey wit, and aural revelation. Viva the excesses of the Post Modernism Liberation Experimental Revolution!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Anne Waldman, Poet, Founder and Artistic Director, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University\u003c\/b\u003eJackson Mac Low was a leading member of the Fluxus group, an innovator of procedural poetics and liminal compositional forms, and a progenitor of the Language Poets and other conceptual artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael O'Driscoll is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Along with Anne Tardos, he is the coeditor of Jackson Mac Low’s \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Light Poems.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233646063845,"sku":"NP9780262552868","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552868.jpg?v=1767738801","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-complete-stein-poems-19982003-isbn-9780262552868","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}