Ryan Ruby Ryan Ruby is the author of Context Collapse and The Zero and the One: A Novel. For his essays and reviews, which have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, the New Left Review, and elsewhere, he received the Silvers Prize in Literary Criticism.

Context Collapse #7 | Poetry

Ryan Ruby

So when context becomes the new content, CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind. And after? What would postcontextual Poetry even look like? Ask Victor H. Yngve, professor of linguistics At MIT, whose 1961 Paper, “Random Generation of English Sentences,” features Computational Poetry generated with the help Of COMIT, his string-processing language, And the words found in a children’s book about A tiny steam engine. Ask Bill Chamberlain And Thomas Etter,...