Sea and Spar Between

Sea and Spar Between is a poetry generator which defines a space of language populated by a number of stanzas comparable to the number of fish in the sea, around 225 trillion. Each stanza is indicated by two coordinates, as with latitude and longitude. The words in Sea and Spar Between come from Emily Dickinson’s poems and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Certain compound words (kennings) are assembled from words used frequently by one or both. Sea and Spar Between was composed using the basic digital technique of counting, which allows for the quantitative analysis of literary texts.

(Source: Authors' abstract at Dear Navigator)

I ♥ E-Poetry entry:

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Technical notes:

HTML 5 Canvas

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource	Author	Teaching Resource Type	Year
Authoring Software	Judy Malloy	Other Teaching Resource	2007
Digital Humanities in Practice (DIKULT 207, Fall 2012)	Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg, Leonardo L. Flores, Patricia Tomaszek	Syllabus	2012
Digital Humanities in Practice (DIKULT 207, UiB, Fall 2013)	Patricia Tomaszek, Scott Rettberg	Syllabus	2013

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 2: Combinatory Poetics
From page to web: electronic remixes and appropriations of print literature
International Electronic Literature by Women Authors 1986-2024
Online Generative Literature
setInterval() Kinetic Poetry

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
A Topographical Approach to Re-Reading Books about Islands in Digital Literary Spaces	J. R. Carpenter	2016
Becoming Digital	J. R. Carpenter	2015
Code Before Content? Brogrammer Culture in Games and Electronic Literature	Anastasia Salter	2016
Collaborations in E-lit	Stephanie Strickland, Nick Montfort	2011
Combination and Copulation: Making Lots of Little Poems	Aden Evens	2018
Commenting Creative Code	Nick Montfort, Stephanie Strickland	2012
Computing Language and Poetry	Nick Montfort	2012
cut to fit the tool-spun course	Nick Montfort, Stephanie Strickland	2013
Generated Texts: Reading Strategy and Interpretational Options	Svetlana Kuchina	2021
I Love E-Poetry	Leonardo L. Flores	2011
In the Event of a Variable Text	J. R. Carpenter	2017
Intimate Mechanics: One Model of Electronic Literature	Stuart Moulthrop	2016
Lift This End: Electronic Literature in a Blue Light	Stuart Moulthrop	2013
On Polish Translation of Sea and Spar Between	Mariusz Pisarski, Monika Górska Olesińska	2013
Poetry and Stuff: A Review of '#!'	John Cayley	2015
Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines	Manuel Portela	2013
Spars of Language Lost at Sea	Nick Montfort, Stephanie Strickland
Text Generation, or Calling Literature into Question	Mario Aquilina	2016
Toward. Some. Air.		2015
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks	J. R. Carpenter	2015

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