Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry
David Whittaker
(Charlbury, Oxfordshire, UK)
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Abstract
Considers Stafford Beer as a poet. Discusses Beer's interest in a wide variety of poetic forms. Gives some technical examples of how Beer employed Welsh and Sanskrit metre and rhythm to writing in English. Also includes a translation from the Spanish; a ballade and selections from his longest poem One Person Metagame.
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Citation
Whittaker, D. (2004), "Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry", Kybernetes, Vol. 33 No. 3/4, pp. 547-553. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920410523562
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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