This blog post promises to not be very coherent, but I’m going to attempt to throw some ideas out there about Jason Nelson’s work. First, everyone should know that Nelson, in spite of the initial “No, really, I think he’s on drugs” reaction we probably all had, is very prolific. His works go back for at least a decade (and…
Tag: digital poetry
CRASH
I chose to taake the approach of digitail poetry. I used SCRATCH because this seemed the most fitting and easiest for me to understand and titeled my work CRASH. I found the truck clipart from google images. I wrote the poem myself about my sister and I. This poem is a true story that happened to us. I had fun…
You will die…
People have a weird obsession with death. When you google “How will I Die?” multiple links pop up such as a death quizzes, death poetry , and death clocks. I decided to investigate Jason Nelson’s digital poem, This is How You Will Die. This poem is Jason Nelson’s famous “works of art- a slot machine for predicting death, using code for…
“I cannot make it cohere.” – Ezra Pound and Dakota
During the modernist era, Ezra Pound (who Dr. Scanlon affectionately refers to as “the Evil Godfather of Modernism”) called for the modern poets to “MAKE IT NEW,” a phrase that became a sort of slogan for what the modernists attempted to accomplish. A term widely associated with modernism is “the crisis of language,” a belief by writers at the time…
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries & Punk Aesthetics
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is the duo of American Marc Voge and South Korean Young-hae Chang, operating in Seoul, South Korea. Most of their works can be considered kinetic poetry or digital poetry. All of their works I have viewed use flash animation to create the movement of words in the web browser and use the Monaco font. They…