TY - BOOK ID - 77870352 TI - Prehistoric digital poetry : an archaeology of forms, 1959-1995 PY - 2007 SN - 0817380876 9780817380878 9780817315627 0817315624 9780817354220 0817354220 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Hypertext systems. KW - Interactive multimedia. KW - Computer poetry KW - Hypertext KW - Interactive multimedia KW - Hypermedia systems KW - Interactive media KW - Computer software KW - Poetics KW - Computational linguistics KW - Poetry KW - Technique. KW - History and criticism. KW - Computer poetry. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870352 AB - 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-1990s, C. T. Funkhouser analyzes numerous landmark works of digital poetry to illustrate that the founda ER -