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| Introduction |
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| The work in Click Poetry has been written expressly for performance on a computer. Many of the poems include sound or animated text. As a poem reveals itself, the reader may be called upon to click a mouse button or to drag a cursor while holding the mouse button down. Have no fear; hints will be supplied when the required action is not obvious. |
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| Words in Space |
| "Words in Space" presents poetry that is meant to be read in three-dimensions. The poems in the "3D" section use VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) to render the illusion of words arrayed in three dimensions on a computer screen. I began to think about three dimensional poetry after reading Jim Rosenberg's "A Prosody of Space / Non-Linear Time". The "Indoor/Outdoor" section displays interactive documentation of three-dimensional poems that I've installed near highways and in an art gallery. This work owes a lot to ideas I came across in Karl Young's "Notation and the Art of Reading". |
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| Words |
| The poems in the "Words" section are composed for a flat surface. Some of them incorporate sound, simultaneous readings, animation, and random word choices. Many of the pieces in this section have been influenced by my reading in the works of Richard Kostelanetz. |
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| The Click Poems |
| These are the earliest pieces. They work on almost all browsers, but they require a sound card. When you click on the poem's first line, a second line appears on the screen. A spoken word or phrase soon follows. These three elements make up the entirety of the poem. Click Poems make vivid connections between the mundane and the timeless. They test the limits of poetic brevity. |
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| Tech Notes |
| Please enable both javascript and Java to see these works. Special requirements, such as plugins, are noted just before each title. The first time you select a poem, it may display slowly because its files must load from the server into your browser's cache. Subsequent readings should be snappier. |
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