Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995

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-1…