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Prehistoric Digital Poetry An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995

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ISBN-10: 0817354220

ISBN-13: 9780817354220

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Christopher Thompson Funkhouser, Sandy Baldwin, Hank Lazer

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A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry. 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. Focusing primarily on programs and experiments produced before the emergence of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, C. T. Funkhouser analyzes numerous landmark works of digital poetry to illustrate that the foundations of today’s most advanced works are rooted in the rudimentary generative, visual, and interlinked productions of the…    
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 6/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

A chronology of works in digital poetry, 1959-1995
Introduction : evolving circuits of digital poetry
Origination : text generation
Visual and kinetic digital poems
Hypertext and hypermedia
Alternative arrangements for digital poetry
Techniques enabled : (Pro)Fusions after poetry computerized
Codeworks
Holography