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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-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. In exploring pioneering works of digital poetry, Funkhouser demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both to influence poets working today and to highlight what the future of digital poetry may hold. ... Read more

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Kamau Brathwaite's CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY is based on the transcript of his 1993 public discussion with Nathaniel Mackey at Poet's House in New York City.Brathwaite expansively elabortes on Mackey's (and audience's) knowledgeable inquiries; his answers are layered with subsequent ruminations arising from his lifelong engagement with world literature and expressive cultures.A multiphasic drift, CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY combines elements of biography and autobiography with poetic discourse on Caribbean literary history and negative effects of colonial domination. Brathwaite splices dialog with poetry, criticism, and instructive imaginary voices in his now distinct and characteristic "Sycorax 'video style'" format. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 7964 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Factors associated with delayed initiation of HIV medical care among infected persons attending a southern HIV/AIDS clinic.(Original Article)
Author: Christopher S. Krawczyk
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 99Issue: 5Page: 472(10)

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