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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Luis de Camoes by SAN1701 · 2003-03-12 00:44 · Score: 5, Informative

Considered the great portuguese poet ever, his most important work, "Os Lusiadas", is a story about the Portuguese explorations of the seas since 1400, and their achivements (like, discovering the route to India, "discovering" Madagascar, etc.). Since they were dealing with the highest technology of their time, I think it qualifies as an important poem inspired by technology.

"Os Lusiadas" is mandatory reading in many high schools in Brazil and Portugal. Some links:

http://web.rccn.net/Camoes/
http://lusiadas.gertrudes.com/