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Contributor(s): Montfort, Nick (Author)

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 ISBN: 1933996463     ISBN-13: 9781933996462
Publisher: Counterpath Press
OUR PRICE: $19.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.2" L (0.45 lbs) 152 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Poetry. Media Studies. # (pronounced shebang) consists of poetic texts that are presented alongside the short computer programs that generated them. The poems, in new and existing forms, are inquiries into the features that make poetry recognizable as such, into code and computation, into ellipsis, into ways of representing ?, and into the alphabet. Computer-generated poems have been composed by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, Alison Knowles and James Tenney, Hugh Kenner and Joseph P. O'Rourke, Charles O. Hartman, and others. The works in # engage with this tradition of more than 50 years and with constrainted and conceptual writing. The book's source code is also offered as free software. All of the text-generating code is presented so that it, too, can be read; it is all also made freely available for use in anyone's future poetic projects.

Contributor Bio(s): Montfort, Nick: - Nick Montfort's digital writing projects include Sea and Spar Between (with Stephanie Strickland) and The Deletionist (with Amaranth Borsuk and Jesper Juul). He developed the interactive fiction system Curveship and (with international collaborators) the large-scale story generation system Slant; was part of the group blog Grand Text Auto; wrote "Ream," a 500-page poem, on a single day; organized Mystery House Taken Over, a collaborative "occupation" of a classic game; wrote Implementation, a novel on stickers, with Scott Rettberg; and wrote and programmed the interactive fictions Winchester's Nightmare, Ad Verbum, and Book and Volume.
 
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