- Hardcover: 408 pages
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press; 2nd edition (15 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0817315624
- ISBN-13: 978-0817315627
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.8 x 3.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,935,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 genre's prehistoric period. Since 1959, computers have been used to produce several types of poetic output, including randomly generated writings, graphical works (static, animated, and video formats), and hypertext and hypermedia. Funkhouser demonstrates how hardware, programming, and software have been used to compose a range of new digital poetic forms.Several dozen historical examples, drawn from all of the predominant approaches to digital poetry, are discussed, highlighting the transformational and multi-faceted aspects of poetic composition now available to authors. 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.
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Looking into the future
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Digital poetry is not new at all. And if you don't trust me, then you should definitely listen to Funkhouser's voice and follow him through this exciting trip into the secret spots of digital poetry. Long before Internet was born there were many poets who tried to create poetry using brand new tools, such as the first personal computers and the first graphic software. Even though you shouldn't look at them with a Speilberg's attitude and disposition for special effects, you'll be surprised to see what those poets did just using a Mac II in the 80's. Combining graphics and poetry is far from being something related to the XX century, though. From Mallarme to Apollinaire many other writers experienced and felt the need of enhancing poetry and its power and potential using graphic tools. What was different in the XX century were the tools that were finally at disposal. funkhouser has finally given flash poetry and interactive fiction great ancestors.
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