Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere Little Island Press Calvino-esque moments

Calvino-esque moments

the poet conjures us here into a trance: a deep delirium of hypnotic

amuk sheds light on the devastating and ongoing effects of a single word's mistranslation

At times I laughed out loud

Jackie Hagan

Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere Little Island Press Calvino-esque momentsSam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting 'found' content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre trained Transformer 2 (GPT 2), an open source neural network , is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that