| Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 Contributor(s): Funkhouser, Christopher Thompson (Author), Baldwin, Sandy (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0817354220 ISBN-13: 9780817354220 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 808.102 |
| LCCN: 2006037512 |
| Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.64" W x 8.91" (1.34 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners and the ways that they have used technology to foster a new aesthetic. This account includes many works, in English and other languages, which have never before been presented in an English-language publication. In exploring pioneering works of digital poetry, Funkhouser demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both to influence poets working today and to highlight what the future of digital poetry may hold. |