Dada poem¶

dada_poem · procedural · catalogued

A poem made by cutting a newspaper article into single words, drawing them from a bag at random and copying them in the order drawn.

Provenance¶

Source: Tristan Tzara, Pour faire un poème dadaïste (1920)
Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no
In other languages: Dada-Gedicht (de), Poème dadaïste (fr)

Prompt hint¶

Cut the article into words, draw them at random, and write them down in that order.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.