Unbound Poetry: Is Art About the Process or the Result?
In my article "Liminal Intelligence: Why Borderless Humans Are Prototypes for the 21st Century," I explore liminal space, a transitional space teetering between borders, where we navigate the cracks in systems, breathe between languages, and live a life in motion — a life unbound.
We can find these spaces in the artistic process.
While AI can generate images, compose music, and even write poetry, it cannot inhabit the sensory, emotional, and embodied experiences that define human creativity. Art, performance, and intellectual exploration rooted in the physical world offer encounters that AI cannot replicate.
-Liminal Intelligence: Why Borderless Humans Are Prototypes for the 21st Century
The Artistic Process
Grammar and spelling issues
- “mi propio inteligencia” → “mi propia inteligencia”“Inteligencia” is feminine, so the possessive adjective should be “propia.”
- “Un carcel” → “Una cárcel”“Cárcel” is feminine. Also, accent on the first “a” is missing.
- “suficiente listo” → “lo suficientemente listo”Adverb needed: “suficiente” modifies adjectives, but you need “lo suficientemente” to make it grammatically correct.
- “un rima” → “una rima”“Rima” is feminine.
- “todo que sale” → “todo lo que sale”Missing article “lo” for correct relative clause.
- “mal como un criminal” → “mal como un criminal” is grammatically okay, but could be refined to “malo como un criminal” for standard adjective agreement.
Of course, the best way to learn a language is with a tutor you connect with. However, we can't all afford to see a tutor several times per week. In these cases, writing poetry by hand and using an LLM to correct it afterwards can blend the sensory experience of learning a language (writing your thoughts and feelings outdoors) with information (sending a picture of your poem to an LLM and asking it to explain the grammar & spelling errors).
Translation
That is not my mother tongue
I can’t get the weight out of my throat
Nor my jokes that dry in my mouth
like a spliff
I can't go my own way because this
language isn't mine yet
I live in the captivity of the limits of my own intelligence
A prison where I never feel smart enough.
I look for a rhyme (rima) like rappers in La Mina
but everything that comes out is bad like a criminal who steals words.
I can't take it (I can't swallow it)
I can't take it
So, I swallow my phrases as if they were…
The Spirits Around Men
Obviously, the next step in my process should be to ensure my writing doesn't look like that of a six-year-old.
What does your process look like?
Where are your liminal spaces?
Let's explore together.
Nolan Yuma
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