Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere Sherko Bekas The poems measure expanding and

The poems measure expanding and contracting times

a totem pole

faith and dogma

Poems by a formidable poet

and when do we really feel at home

Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere Sherko Bekas The poems measure expanding andSam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting 'found' content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre trained Transformer 2 (GPT 2), an open source neural network , is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that