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Tristan Tzara’s How to Make a Dadaist Poem

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How to Make a Dadaist Poem Original poem by Tristan Tzara.

Tristan Tzara created this method for generating a Dadaist poem by cutting up the words from a chosen newspaper article and randomly rearranging them into a new text.

Our version takes his set of instructions and cuts it up and randomly reassembles it into a poem. This version also preserves the exact same structure of the original so it kind of looks like his original set of instructions.

This style algorithm was done as a collaboration with the artist Wanksy.

Copyright 2015 David Bellows

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