Clock Counting: Poems
The complete original collection of 56 poems in its most accessible, portable format.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
About Clock Counting.
A note on authorship, translation, and the making of the digital companion.
THE BOOKS
The Four Editions of Clock Counting
The collection is presented here in four print editions, including the classroom edition. Choose the version that best matches how you want to read, study, or teach it.
Clock Counting: Poems
The same complete English collection in a more durable hardcover edition, well suited for gifts, libraries, and collectors.
Clock Counting: La poésie en anglais éclairée en français
All 56 English poems with a line-by-line French gloss and companion pages illuminating language, references, and wordplay.
Clock Counting: La poésie en anglais éclairée en français (Édition pour la classe)
A shorter selection of 28 poems with French support designed for guided study, teaching, and group discussion.
THE COMPANION IS STILL GROWING
Stay with a poem.
A new image, recording, or way to explore a poem may arrive long after you first read it. Choose major site updates, the poems that stay with you, or both.
TRANSPARENCY
AI Disclaimer
The original collection
No artificial intelligence was used in any way to create, edit, or publish Clock Counting: Poems.
I wrote every poem entirely myself. None of the poems were drafted, revised, reviewed, or otherwise evaluated by AI. The cover illustration and the graphics within the book were created by a human illustrator whom I hired and paid a substantial sum.
The bilingual edition
Some artificial intelligence was used to assist with the French translations for Clock Counting: La poésie en anglais éclairée en français.
As a non-fluent French speaker, it would have been foolish for me to pretend that I could produce every French rendering unaided: I would inevitably have relied on translation tools, and artificial intelligence is not fundamentally different in that regard. I personally reviewed every translation through a long, iterative process, repeatedly refining wording, nuance, and explanatory detail to make the French as sound and faithful to the English as possible—not simply handing the manuscript to an automated translation tool.
The digital companion
This digital companion made heavy use of artificial intelligence.
AI did not determine what I wanted to say or decide what belonged here. The subject selection, personal reflections, and creative direction are mine. Artificial intelligence helped me turn these choices into the experience you see.
DEDICATION
This digital companion is dedicated to a certain D.G., whom I love very much, who greatly catalyzed my adoption of new technologies, and whose steadfast resolve to realize his dreams I find beautiful and inspirational.