All these structures of mathematical or musical or vocal languages reflect the physical structure of the hemispheres of the brain, and when they are just, we call it Beauty. They are each expressions of the clover leafs of the DNA, the basic programming of the human cell. The DNA itself is a shaped expression of this universe which has slowly transformed through the eons of recursive adjustment, evolving into the miracle called man. The computer is the electrically immediate mirror, which allows us to see our own mind dancing. Too much time has been given already to the confusion over whether programming is pedestrian or artistic.
Most poetry is pedestrian.
A three-piece suit doth not a programmer make, nor lacy sleeves a poet. This new American poetry, animated on a video screen, controls time and space and color, can interpolate scenes like movie film, and can perform manipulations of text never before imagined or possible. They are invested with their lives in the old techniques. Only a few will chance the leap. But the great poets have always known that the essence of creativity was subliminal, beneath easy perception.