All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (poetry collection)
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| Preceded by | The Octopus Frontier |
|---|---|
| Followed by | Please Plant This Book |
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is
title poem envisions a world where cybernetics has advanced to a stage where it allows a return to the balance of nature and an elimination of the need for human labor. All thirty-two of the poems in this collection were republished in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
.
Copyleft statement
In the original 1967 publication, Brautigan included a copyleft statement which retains copyright but grants permission to reprint any poem in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace on one condition:[1]
© Copyright 1967 by Richard Brautigan Permission is granted to reprint any of these poems in magazines, books and newspapers if they are given away free.
Cultural references
The title was later used by Tucson, Arizona
2011 television series by documentary maker Adam Curtis.[2] Machines of Loving Grace is also the title of a 2015 nonfiction book by John Markoff
, documenting robotics transforming society.
References
- ^ Barber, John F. "Poetry - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". Brautigan.net.
- ^ Adam Curtis (2011-05-10). "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". BBC Online.
External links
- "Richard Brautigan: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". brautigan.net.
- Bob Nelson (2011-02-04). "Richard Brautigan Writings - First Appearance Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-06-09.