Poets Inspired by Technology?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 11, 2003 @11:21PM from the geeks-and-literature dept.

dejetal asks: "Does anyone know of a poet who's typical topic is some form of technology? I have been personally interested in this subject for some time now (with disappointing search results), but now I have some new motivation: I will be attending Columbia University fairly soon, and I would like to have an interesting topic to work on for a writing/composition course. Columbia also has some exciting new majors that may appeal to the Slashdot crowd, one of them being Digital Media Technology , the area of study that I wish to enter. Can anybody point me towards some good techno-poets?"

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Re:Mostly anti-tech by rodentia · 2003-03-12 06:59 · Score: 2, Insightful

I beg to differ. Anti-tech is too strong. Much of modern poetry may regard the machine with ambivalence, but to the extent it features in a poem it partakes of the struggle for relevance with every other external.

There are numberous odes to the bridge of Brooklyn: Mayakovsky and Lorca come to mind.

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illegitimii non ingravare