Not born digital : poetics, print literacy, new media / Daniel Morris.

Author/creator Morris, Daniel, 1962- author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.
Copyright Date©2016
Description258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Medium as Messenger: Hannah Weiner Anchors the Social Poetics of 1986 in Weeks -- 2. A Blizzard of Snowflakes: Kenneth Goldsmith as Conceptualist at the Cusp of a Digital Age in Soliloquy -- 3. (In)decisive Moments and Bad Conceptual Art: On Kenneth Goldsmith's Seven American Deaths and Disasters -- 4. "The wound track shows deeper hemorrhage": Kenneth Goldsmith's "The Body of Michael Brown" as The Eighth American Disaster -- 5. Gaps in the Machine: Andrei Codrescu's Unarchival Poetics -- 6. "Needing to Summon the Others": Archival Research as Seance in Susan Howe's Spontaneous Particulars -- 7. Bad Company, Meet Sonic Youth: On Noah Eli Gordon's inbox: Social Media, Post Language Conceptual Poetics, and the Ethics of Online Appropriation -- 8. A Tonalism, Synaesthesia, Translation, and Post-Ableism in The Route -- 9. What Makes Poetry Happen: The Erotics of Literary Activism in an Age of Internet Virus.
Abstract "Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives - ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic - the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded, but nonetheless historically resonant materials to unsettle what Charles Bernstein, a leading innovative contemporary U.S. poet and critic of "official verse culture," refers to as "frame lock" and "tone jam." While other scholars have begun to analyze poetry that appears in new media contexts, Not Born Digital concerns the ambivalent ways page poets (rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with "screen memory" (that is, electronic and new media sources) through the re-purposing of "found" materials"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract "Breaks new ground by evoking framework models of art theory to approach innovative U.S. poetry, with special emphasis on 21st-century examples of conceptual authors whose "found" material first appeared in new media contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
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Joyner General Stacks PS326 .M67 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold