What Sparks Poetry:
Douglas Luman on bpNichol's "First Screening"
"The poems are active; they literally reveal themselves. Even on what must be my hundredth viewing, the works are clever and moving solutions of poetic and technical 'problems.' Letters flutter, travel, disappear. Linguistic invention gives way to parallel, co-present visual-spatial metaphor. A romance occurs off screen in the code even if the viewer/user doesn't execute the author-provided code to see it happen ('Off-Screen Romance')." |
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