"Do You Have Balls?" is a slideshow prose-poem by Richard Holeton that explores issues of masculinity and the body. The presenter muses about how the presence or absence of testes affects his feelings of self-worth and way of relating to others. Each of the section headings is an iteration of the Seussian mantra: "Yes, I have ___ ball(s), and you have ___" Holeton previously experimented with the slideshow format in his works: "Voyeur With Dog" (2009) and "Custom Orthotics Changed My Life" (2010). As with these other slideshow fiction pieces, "Do You Have Balls?" incorporates elements like: bullet points, large, easy-to-read text, still images, graphs and tables, a summary of key points, and even a closing Thank You slide.
masculine/feminine
Digital poemas based on the book Tesauro (Thesaurus), which was published by the National Council for the Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) in 2010.
The first section of this poetry book won the First Prize for Poetry Contest of Magazine “Punto de Partida” of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Some of this digital poems in their printed form are part of the book in Visual Mexican Poetry: The Transfigured Word, a collection of five artist-books published by the National Council for the Culture and Arts (CONACULTA).
(Source: http://www.poetronica.net/digitalpoetry.html)
Poemas digitales basados en mi libro Tesauro, que fue publicado por el Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) en 2010.
Un fragmento de este poemario obtuvo el Primer premio de poesía en el Concurso 39° de la revista Punto de Partida de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Algunos de estos poemas digitales aparecen en su versión impresa en Poesía visual mexicana: la palabra transfigurada, una colección de cinco libros-objeto del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA).
(Source: http://www.poetronica.net/digitalpoetry.html)
¡AH! Interj. Condemnation to Female and Masculinity
// Humanity: They still understand what was before
// To derive the existence together