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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19961203
Author:Gallagher, David

MacProse. It's a sentence-generating program newly downloadable on the Internet. It spits up complete-though not necessarily comprehensible-sentences. Which makes MacProse available for the production of poetry.

But is it real poetry? Charles 0. Hartman, who invented the program, notes that "most of any writing process is actually rewriting"Accordingly, he touts MacProse as "a first-draft writer," which will do poets' dirty work for them.

So, is Robert Frost's "lump in the throat"-the unformed inspiration that the poet unearths into finished verse-just a hot-link away? Or has Hartman ...

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