I've been writing some poems from Amazon word clouds, those nouny clusters that show you by size how often certain keywords appear in a text. It's a gimmick with the feel of a coming form. The one on Nada Gordon's blog achieves an astonishing verbal portrait. In part:(anti-)religion
anecdote
anti-semitism
Bollywood
cabaret
clothes
cockroaches
collage
crossdressing
dance
decoration
design
extravagance
fabric
flaneuring
Flarf
folly
food
fragment
gender
humor
Japan
judgments
Language poetry
Louis Aragon
maxims
moods
New York
parody
parties
poetics
sewing
sightings
subway
urban spelunking
weird orientalia
zaum
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