[Newspoetry] issue 11; electronic book review
Rob Wittig
wit at tank20.com
Thu Dec 21 10:20:33 CST 2000
skrreeeap!
skreeeatch!
tchkp! tchkp! tchkp!
Oh, you're reading this already? Yipes!
Hang on. . . give me . . . about 30 more seconds
before you visit the new collection of ideas
at ebr
electronic book review 11
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr11/index.html
We've just about got it all dug out . . .
Sorry to make you wait . . .
We had ebr 11,
called "webarts,"
all ready to go
and then the snow started really coming down
here in Chicago
and the damn hyperlinks got all iced up . . .
*whistles sharply, forming steam cloud*
Hey!
Tabbi!
*whistles*
Tabbi! Joe! Chuck me the window-scraper, will you?
The good thing about this issue
is that there's a lot of HEAT deep inside it
YEAH, this issue's theme is (quote) WEB ARTS (end quote)
and it casts that term wide enough
to include Jacquard looms
and
comic books
and
adhesive tape sculpture
and
global economies
and
narrative parasites
. . . and that's the Big Story
. . . BUT
I think the HOT STORY in this ebr
is the FRICTION
you'll find
-- between Hypertext and Cybertext in Nick Montfort's piece
-- between Daniel Wenk and his reviewer
(scroll to the bottom of "Telling Tales, Shaping Artists's Myths")
-- in William Gillespie's front-line account of a brutal poetry flame war
("Is Charles Bernstein a Political Poet?")
-- as Jan Baetens takes on Scott McCloud
-- in the subtle sumo wrestling as both Richard John and Daniel Punday
match separately with Bernard Siegert's "Relays"
-- rippling through the single best statement I've read on the election:
Philip Wohlstetter's "The Runoff: a Simple Electoral Reform"
*knocks snow-caked shovel against the side of ebr 11*
The only trouble with this issue is that it thawed
and then froze again last night
(my fingers are numb; I gotta get new gloves!)
phew!
ebr 11 should be ready now. Go for it!
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr11/index.html
--- Rob Wittig
(Anne! Hey! Anne Burdick! Got any more of that schnapps?)
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ebr11
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The Runoff: A Simple Electoral Reform
by Philip Wohlstetter
ebr11 webarts
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Dali's Clocks
by Stephanie Strickland
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star
by Nick Montfort
Unfolding Laramee
by Allison Hunter
Signmakers 1999
by Cary Wolfe
Tape for the Turn of the Year: Conversations With and About Daniel Wenk
Recorded by Joseph Tabbi.
Telling Tales: Shaping Artists' Myths
by John Brunetti
New = Old, Old = New
by Jan Baetans
ebr11 reVIEWs of general interest
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False Pretenses, Parasites,and Monsters
by Tom Leclair
Feeding the Global Spider
by Linda Brigham
German TV Troubles
by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
After the Post
by Daniel Punday
The Postal System and the Making of German Literary Culture
by Richard John
Poetry After the Great Divide
by Jan Baetens
Is Charles Bernstein a Political Poet?
by William Gillespie
No. No. [Novel not to die
by Stacey Levine
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