“All genuine poetry is in a sense the formation of private spheres out of a public chaos”

[larryhammer]

Just for you, it’s two videos and a poem, all entertaining:

The Dice Game[s] That Lets Anyone Be a Composer, which you can explore yourself, along with a few more procedurally generated music creation systems, at Opus Infinity.

Table Tennis Best Points of 2024 — some absolutely rediculous rallies here. Great stuff. (via)

A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry by Brian Bilston

Enjoy!

---L.

Subject quote from Preface, Oxford Poetry 1927, W.H. Auden (quoted here).

Comments

[mme_n_b]

Oh. Wow. TIL that social realism in English and social realism in Russian (yes, Russian uses the exact same words) are two completely different artistic movements. Thank you!

[larryhammer]

I'm not really surprised. Hadn't actively realized it myself, but that tracks tbh.