Prehistoric Digital Poetry

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Prehistoric Digital Poetry

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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 D=
igital Poetry is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry=
that highlights its major practitioners and the ways that they have used t=
echnology to foster a new aesthetic. Focusing primarily on programs and exp=
eriments produced before the emergence of the World Wide Web in the mid-199=
0s, C. T. Funkhouser analyzes numerous landmark works of digital poetry to =
illustrate that the foundations of today's most advanced works are rooted i=
n the rudimentary generative, visual, and interlinked productions of the ge=
nre's prehistoric period.

Since 1959, computers have been used to produce several types of poetic out=
put, including randomly generated writings, graphical works (static, animat=
ed, and video formats), and hypertext and hypermedia. Funkhouser demonstrat=
es how hardware, programming, and software have been used to compose a rang=
e of new digital poetic forms. Several dozen historical examples, drawn fro=
m all of the predominant approaches to digital poetry, are discussed, highl=
ighting the transformational and multi-faceted aspects of poetic compositio=
n now available to authors. This account includes many works, in English an=
d other languages, which have never before been presented in an English-lan=
guage publication. Marjorie Perloff adds that "this superbly conceived, ele=
gantly written, meticulously researched, and astonishingly learned history =
of digital poetry in the decades leading up to the emergence of the World W=
ide Web will be required reading for anyone interested in the state of poet=
ics today. An encyclopedia of forms and possibilities, this is that rare sc=
holarly production-an indispensable book," she said.

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

The University of Alabama Press founded in 1945 is one of the largest and f=
astest-growing publishers in the South. It publishes seventy to eighty book=
s a year in archaeology, military history, Judaic studies, literary critici=
sm, communication, sports, Civil Rights, religion, southern history, and re=
gional topics.

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Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 by C.T. Funk=
houser
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@uapress.=
ua.edu . direct line: 205-348-9534

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