Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995

Description: Explores pioneering works of digital poetry and demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse

Review Quotes: "Focusing on examples of digital poetry before the Web rather than on literary precursors to Web experiments, Funkhouser offers an ambitious book that relies on, but also exceeds, the genre-building foundations established by Loss Pequeño Glazier (in Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries, CH, Jul'02, 39-6249) and Brian Kim Stefan (Fashionable Noise on Digital Poetics, 2003). Recommended."
--CHOICE

"In Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, Chris Funkhouser provides a comprehensive historical, descriptive, and technical account of early works of computer-assisted poetry composition. This is essential reading for anyone interested in digital poetics, constraint-base writing, or, indeed, the possibilities for new poetry in the 21st century"
--Charles Bernstein, author of Girly Man and editor of Electronic Poetry Center