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[Alan Sondheim]

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New Book Provides a Major Historical View of the Birth of Electronic Poetry



TUSCALOOSA, AL (July 25, 2007) - For the last five decades, poets have had a 
vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. Prehistoric Digital 
Poetry 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. 
Marjorie Perloff adds that "this superbly conceived, elegantly written, 
meticulously researched, and astonishingly learned history of digital poetry in 
the decades leading up to the emergence of the World Wide Web will be required 
reading for anyone interested in the state of poetics today. An e ncyclopedia 
of forms and possibilities, this is that rare scholarly production-an 
indispensable book," she said.



C. T. Funkhouser is Associate Professor of Humanities at the New Jersey 
Institute of Technology and author of Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works 
(forthcoming) and Selections 2.0, an eBook.



The University of Alabama Press founded in 1945 is one of the largest and 
fastest-growing publishers in the South. It publishes seventy to eighty books a 
year in archaeology, military history, Judaic studies, literary criticism, 
communication, sports, Civil Rights, religion, southern history, and regional 
topics.



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Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 by C.T. 
Funkhouser
Publication date: June 24, 2007
408 pages . 6 x 9 . 50 illustrations
ISBN-10: 0-8173-5422-0 . $39.95 paperback

ISBN-10: 0-8173-1562-4 . $75.00 unjacketed hardback



To order, contact the Chicago Distribution Center  .  773-702-7000  .  fax: 
773-702-7212

For additional information, contact:  Shana R. Rivers  . 
srrivers at uapress.ua.edu  .  direct line: 205-348-9534




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