Concrete and Digital Poetics

I argue that there is an intrinsic connection between concrete poetics as a theory of the medium (i.e., of language, of written language, and of poetical forms) and digital poetics as a theory of poetry for the digital medium. This link is clearly seen in the use of concrete poems as storyboards and scripts for electronic texts, both in composing text for graphic interface static display and for animation. This essay deals with the adoption of electronic media by concrete poets, with examples from the work of Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos (1931-), and Portuguese poets E.M. de Melo e Castro (1932-) and Tiago Gomez Rodrigues (1972-).

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Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Não Poemas	Augusto de Campos	2003
Roda Lume	E. M. de Melo e Castro	1968

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries	Loss Pequeño Glazier	2001
From (Command) Line to (Iconic) Constellation	Kenneth Goldsmith	2001
Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom	Theodor Holm Nelson	1993
Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics	Michael Joyce	2002

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Poetic Transformations in(to) the Digital	Friedrich W. Block, Rui Torres		2007

Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource	Teaching Resource Type	Author	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2014)	Syllabus	Judd Morrissey, Álvaro Seiça	2014

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection

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