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Machines of Loving Grace exhibit at LePop Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI April 2012

Machines of Loving Grace

Who's in charge here?

by Stephanie Douglass

posted 4/1/2012

"I like to think / (right now, please!) / of a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics," wrote the late American poet and writer Richard Brautigan, imagining a utopian future "where deer stroll peacefully / past computers / as if they were flowers." The poem, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," is an orderly, naively wishful, and

 
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