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The Poem Electric - Technology and the American Lyric (Paperback)
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The Poem Electric - Technology and the American Lyric (Paperback)
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An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and
the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
Many poets and their readers believe poetry helps us escape
straightforward, logical ways of thinking. But what happens when
poems confront the extraordinarily rational information
technologies that are everywhere in the academy, not to mention
everyday life? Examining a broad array of electronics-including the
radio, telephone, tape recorder, Cold War-era computers, and
modern-day web browsers-Seth Perlow considers how these
technologies transform poems that we don't normally consider
"digital." From fetishistic attachments to digital images of Emily
Dickinson's manuscripts to Jackson Mac Low's appropriation of a
huge book of random numbers originally used to design thermonuclear
weapons, these investigations take Perlow through a revealingly
eclectic array of work, offering both exciting new voices and
reevaluations of poets we thought we knew. With close readings of
Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, and many others, The
Poem Electric constructs a distinctive lineage of experimental
writers, from the 1860s to today. Ultimately, Perlow mounts an
important investigation into how electronic media allows us to
distinguish poetic thought from rationalism. Posing a necessary
challenge to the privilege of information in the digital
humanities, The Poem Electric develops new ways of reading poetry,
alongside and against the electronic equipment that is now
ubiquitous in our world.
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