“Living Will” by Mark C Marino is an interactive poem that names the reader executor of networking tycoon E. R. Millhouse’s will, which is the interactive poem. Millhouse is dying of a parasite infection he caught in his time working and living in the Congo. In making allotments, Millhouse divides his wealth and estate among four people: his son, Nigel;…
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Form Within Form: Cube-Poems in Electronic Literature
Before you read on, check out “Series Eleven or Five” by Jason Nelson. So where did you click first? Rotate up or down? Or did you go through by line? Spending some time with it, I found that the easiest way to track how the cube moves is to make your own sixteen line poem and see what…
A Poem With Nine Lives: Jason Nelson’s Attempt at Cloning
“Nine Attempts to Clone A Poem” is a work of interactive poetry in which Nelson demonstrates and manipulates the boundaries of electronic literature. The work utilizes as excessive number of media/interactive aspects, however not as many as some of his other works (the entirety of which can be found on his website), including but not limited to music…
Letter to Linus: Postcards From the Future
“Letter to Linus” begins with a picture of an unfolded cube, with a phrase in each square. Like “Penetration” and “Dispossession” by Robert Kendall, the reader clicks on a phrase, which leads to a poem related to the phrase. When the reader has finished reading a poem, he or she chooses a phrase related to a verb at the end…
Paperwounds by Andy Campbell
Adam Campbell’s “Paperwounds” takes its readers to a dark place; to a mind of suicidal thoughts and depression. The reader is presented with a crumpled up suicide note. We can click on certain words which are highlighted and pulse red. There is also a sound effect, a sort of technological beep which goes off whenever the mouse hovers over the…
Jörg Piringer’s Soundpoems
After browsing Vol. 2 of the Electronic Literature Collection for a bit, I stumbled across these nifty things: They are Jörg Piringer’s Soundpoems, titled “gravity and reflection,” “predator vs. prey,” and “food chain.” Unlike most poetry, there’s not much to actually read. Also, what is there to read (letters) are moving around on the screen. Also, they make noises,…
“In the Garden of Recounting” by Robert Kendall
Despite the fact that I have enjoyed almost all of the forms of electronic literature that we have studied in this class, I find myself most drawn to hypertext and interactive poetry. As such, the other day I decided to search the internet for sites that host hypertext poetry, when I came across an archive of work by the writer…