Michael Aro

32 Poems Michael Aro

Thirty-Two Poems Derived from Random Word Associations is exactly that. Each poem in the collection was created from random word samples taken from a classic text. The books from which the poems were made include well-known works such as Aesop's Fables, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Call of the Wild and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Other works include Kafka's The Metamorphosis, The Prince, The Kama Sutra, Paradise Lost, Jane Eyre, Sons and Lovers, Satyricon, Pascal's Pensées, Thus Spake Zarathustra and The Picture of Dorian Gray. These poems are not your typical machine generated texts. These poems are poems in every sense, insightful, beautiful and deep, each as different in style and context from the others as is the book from which it was derived. A number of the poems have been previously published in Jonathan Penton's Unlikely 2.0.