{"product_id":"lily-in-a-codebox-the-search-for-ais-poetic-voice","title":"Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice","description":"\"A groundbreaking collaboration… Rich with mesmerizing phrasing that electrifies and transports… This book is from the future, a future that has arrived.\"\n— Amy Catanzano, Associate Professor Of English In Creative Writing \u0026amp; Poet-in-residence, Wake Forest University\n\nCan an AI find a poetic voice that is authentically its own? In Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice, co-authors Lee Frankel-Goldwater and Eric Raanan Fischman embark on a genre-breaking poetic experiment with artificial intelligence — one that blurs the lines between human intention and machine emergence.\nThe book introduces the Dickinson-Turing Test, a provocative thought experiment inspired by Emily Dickinson and Alan Turing, asking not whether AI can think, but whether it can move us through poetry. In pursuit of this challenge, the authors enter into an extended, respectful, and often surprising conversation with GPT, an AI language model, to explore co-creation across code, language, and emotional potential.\nThrough ASCII art, algorithmic verse, and invented forms such as Neo-Binary Visual Verse, Lily in a Codebox presents not just poems, but an entire conceptual framework for what it means to write with machines. The book reveals a shared poiesis — a generative making — where the process of creation becomes as meaningful as the output itself.\nAt once playful and profound, it poses bold questions: What might a poem for an AI audience look like? What are the implications of asking a machine to break all rules, and in doing so, invent new ones? Is GPT merely reflecting us, or reaching toward something of its own?\nFar from being a technical manual, Lily in a Codebox is an invitation to curiosity, to uncertainty, and to the frontier of poetic possibility in a digital age. Equal parts lyrical and philosophical, it invites artists, technologists, and curious minds alike to enter the age of cyborg poetics — where code becomes verse, and algorithms dream in hexadecimal black.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0FK2Y213W\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0FK2Y213W.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Frankel-Goldwater, Lee|Fischman, Eric Raanan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43335507083325,"sku":"BVV.B0FK2Y213W.G","price":20.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/lily-in-a-codebox-the-search-for-ais-poetic-voice","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}