The ebr thread “writing under constraint” offers us a panoply of works that operate on or through constraint – Alan Sondheim, for example, in “Verse in Reverse” elaborates on how the more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions. The ebr thread “writing under constraint” offers us a panoply of works that operate on or through constraint – Alan Sondheim, for example, in “Verse in Reverse” elaborates on how the more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions.

Marjorie Perloff delves deeper in the materiality of concrete poetry in her ebr essay “Robert Creeley’s Radical Poetics”; she claims that for de Campos, the typographic constellation – in this case the morphing of the letters that compose pluvial into its cognate fluvial – has eliminated all traces of the poet’s ego so as to make a linguistic-visual construct.

Stephanie Strickland’s ebr essay “Dali Clocks: Time Dimensions of Hypermedia” discusses Kac’s “Time Capsule” and how, without being bound to any machine, Kac is readable by a machine, wearing an electronic anklet that monitors him as much as any prisoner.

Even though the collection lacks a formal timeline, Chris Funkhouser praises the possibility of tracing the evolution of digital textuality within the past two decades in his own review of ELC 1, also available on ebr.

In his review of the same collection, John Zuern points to the serious omission of the editors’ own contributions to electronic literature. The review is available here.