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By Meri Alexandra Raita, 19 March, 2012
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Description from the new edition (2012):

Poetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem. By spelling out such enabling conditions he gives us an engaging overview of some of the kinds of contemporary poetry that challenge our notions of what language is: sound poetry, visual or concrete poetry, and "found" poetry.

Source: amazon.com

By Eric Dean Rasmussen, 6 February, 2012
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Hayles' curators note for David Clark's work contrasts 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (2008) with Michael Joyce's Twelve Blue (1996) to suggest that in Web environments long narrative fictions are becoming assemblages, comprised of smaller prose passages, to be sampled rather than read, and "absorbed" as a coherent whole.

Presented as part of the Digital Literature week (February 6-10, 2012) at In Media Res, organized by Eric LeMay.

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Competing for attention in the Web’s information-intensive environment, narratives become smaller, less connected, tending toward an array to be sampled rather than a whole to be absorbed.

By Scott Rettberg, 6 February, 2012
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The intended audience of Born-Again Bits includes besides e-lit authors also the publishers, archivists, academics, programmers, and funding officers who will be necessary partners in an overall, renewable ecology of electronic literature. These other communities are already at work on digital preservation strategies. However, experimental e-lit has special qualities that make it an extreme case of the digital artifact. It is hoped that ELO's PAD initiative will contribute to other digital preservation strategies by ensuring that they accommodate e-lit and so, in the process, become more robust for all digital works.

Born-Again Bits had its origin in the work of the PAD Technology/Software Committee (directed by Alan Liu), which in 2002 and 2003 prepared a report for ELO proposing strategies for the long-term preservation of electronic literature. Born-Again Bits distills the conclusions of that report into a two-part plan: the ELO Interpreter and X-Literature Initiatives. The specifics of the plan are imagined less as hard-and-fast commitments than as a way to flesh out what a general approach might look like. Though necessarily technical at some points, the overall goal of Born-Again Bits is to allow diverse stakeholders (authors, publishers, archivists, academics, programmers, grant officers, and others) to get just enough of a glimpse of each other's expertise to see how an overall system for maintaining and reviving the life of electronic literature might be possible.

(Source: Preface to Born-Again Bits)

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From the point of view of long-term digital preservation, however, the entity of interest is not necessarily any discrete object but the working relationship among objects (each of which may mutate) that assures readability. This means that the intact "original work" in its initial instantiation […] loses its iconic status and becomes just one of many possible manifestations of a preserved work (Liu et al.)

By Patricia Tomaszek, 3 February, 2012
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Michael Joyce. A Polish Writer. A chapbook containing an interview with Michael Joyce and a discussion of his literary relationship to Polish authors such as poet Czesław Miłosz and others. It comes along with contributions on reception of hypertext. The PDF is attached and downloadable from the publisher´s website.

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Czyta Mickiewicza i Miłosza, zagląda do Stasiuka i Masłowskiej, a w nowojorskich antykwariatach wyszukuje unikatowych wydań polskiej literatury emigracyjnej. Michael Joyce – amerykański pisarz o irlandzkich korzeniach, dorastający w polsko-amerykańskich dzielnicach miasta Buffalo, opowiada Ha!artowi o tym, jak dużo zawdzięcza polskiej literaturze. Chapbook Michael Joyce: polski pisarz to zbiór tekstów, notatek i raportów przybliżających polskie powinowactwa autora nazywanego „Homerem hipertekstu”.