Diagonal Interleaving Poetry: A New Generative Permutational Poetic Form Inspired By Error-Correcting Coding Theory

Year: 2022 Authors: Susan Gerofsky

Core claim

A periodic interleaving permutation can generate expressive poems from word matrices while revealing useful poetic constraints and affordances.

Topics

permutational poetry, generative poetic form, error-correcting codes, word matrices

Domains

coding theory, combinatorics, matrix permutation, abstract algebra, concrete poetry, literary form, typographic layout, wordplay

Methods

matrix-based generation, periodic permutation, diagonal interleaving, poetic experimentation

Media

n x m word matrices, phrases, poems

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