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1. E-CyberDigital Poetry: To Grasp or to Build a Genre Identity through a Term’s Choice?

   In recent years, the field of digital poetry had at least three major critical monographs
   discussing the genre and its state-of-the-art. Loss Pequeño Glazier (2002), Brian Kim
   Stefans (2003) and Christopher T. Funkhouser (2007) have not only introduced new
   critical perspectives, but have also discussed the genre’s problematic definition and its
   denominations’ variety: e-poetry, cyberpoetry and digital poetry.
   Considering Theo Lutz’s Stochastische Texte (1959) as the first work of
   programmable poetry, one should note the genre’s long history of practice in spite of
   its shorter history of critical writing. Therefore, the way authors have been coining
   and defining the genre itself claims for a theorization standpoint and helps shaping the
   field towards a specific path and perhaps a crystalized historical construction.
   Do the referenced terms position their authors in a similar flow of thought? By
   following a concept’s trajectory and the author’s choice, one must consider the fact
   that its crystallization will shape future critical writing. In this sense, it is important to
   

   Alvaro Seica - 04.02.2015 - 19:09