What Is 'Experimental Art'" (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

What Is 'Experimental Art'?

for Marjorie Perloff

“The one feature that all literary experiments share is their commitment to raising fundamental questions about the very nature and being of verbal art itself.” Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, & Brian McHale

“There exists no science of word creation.” Velimir Khlebnikov	We need to recognize that androids are part of the landscape.	“Defamiliaration    draws attention to the use of common language in such a way as to alter one's [sensation and] perception of an easily understandable object or concept.” Viktor Shklovsky
...extreme deviation from that which is familiar.	Latoya is a genius without a plan, but they make good brownies and keep their clothes clean.	“Facebook® files algorithm patent to predict who you live with.” wsj.com
ROP-7 loves you, and you're doing a great job.	Figues au Thym: 1 pound dried figs; 2 cups red wine; 2 or 3 small branches of thyme; 3 tablespoons honey. Richard Olney	Helen Frankenthaler saw the cliffs of Nova Scotia.
/poem erased/	zaum	Green is the color of my map falseing an ecosystem collapsing —into the North Sea.
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). Jackson Pollock	Antipodal and anxious, three Negrobots pick pumpkins. Each knows the way.	To delete your files, press this key.
The impact of global climate change could cause U.S. economic losses totaling hundreds of billions of dollars per year by the end of the century.	Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror. John Ashbery	I know it when I see it.
Paul Fry, “Russian Formalism” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11_oVlwfv2M&list=PLD00D35CBC75941BD&index=8&t=0s	Agents walk like chickens purring like cats chasing goats —thirsty as hummingbirds hovering over flowers.	Poetry should make reality strange. (after Wallace Stevens)