Poetry’s Data by Meredith Martin, professor of humanities

In her latest book, Martin explores the relationship between poetry and data. As the world becomes more and more of an information ecosystem, Martin unpacks what this means in practice for digital humanities and for the works of poetry that predate such technologies. She offers readers a critique of knowledge production with examples to highlight the importance of the histories of meditation and format when it comes to teaching poetry and the poetic form. Poetry’s Data (Princeton University Press) shows how literature has understood poetry’s data throughout the centuries.