Tag: poetry

Rui Torres tracks the practice of intertextual borrowing or "plagiotropia" between the works of Portuguese experimental poets. Plagiotropia is a tangible and fecund practice in digital poetry, where poetic texts migrate and grow across media. Torres' arguments culminate in an examination of his own online combinatory cyber-poetry, which creatively re-writes earlier pre-digital experimental works.

Dragica Felja on the Peripatetic Poetry of Miroslav Mandic.

Jacob Edmond reviews Brian McHale's The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole.

A Wallace Stevens conference review from poet and critic Ravi Shankar.

Matt Gorbet maintains that interactive texts remain overfamiliar to bodies trained on snowflakes and rain.

Sidebar images from "Literal Art: Neither Lines nor Pixels but Letters."

John Cayley dadas up the digital, revealing similarities of type across two normally separate, unequal categories: image and text. "Neither lines nor pixels but letters," finally, unite.

Rita Raley praises twin interactivities.

Form and platform are bridged in Stephanie Strickland's "V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una," a book with two beginings and a website to boot. Chris Funkhouser tests the load limit of this innovative, precarious structure.

John Matthias reports on the state of British Poetry and its criticism.