Preface
Introduction: Transversions of the Contemporary
1. END GAME
How Empty Is My Bread Pudding?, by Charles Bernstein
After Language Poetry: Modernity & Its Discontents, by Marjorie Perloff
2. PRECURSORS
Getting Past Odradek, by Kevin Nolan
The Avant-Garde & Radical Modernism in the Prehistory of Cyberculture, by Donald F. Theall
Doctor Williams's Position, Updated, by Bob Perelman
The Infinite Evasion of As, by Simon Critchley
Corporal Poetics: Kathy Acker's Writing, by D. J. Huppatz
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism, by Michel Deville and Andrew Norris
3. CONJUNCTIONS
Metaphor: The Colour of Being, by Ricardo Nirenberg
Vagueness, by Keston Sutherland
AND &, by D. J. Huppatz, Nicole Tomlinson, and Julian Savage
Readings Notes, by Bruce Andrews
Lost and Found, by Bruce Andrews
4. CURSORS
Concrete Poetry: A Manifesto, by Augusto de Campos
Questionnaire of the Yale Symposium, by Augusto de Campos
Epigrams, Particle Theory, and Hypertext, by Darren Tofts
Image Heuretics, by Gregory L. Ulmer
From Hypertext to Codework, by McKenzie Wark
Codeworld, by Alan Sondheim
5. TRANSPOSITIONS
Techno-Poetics in the Vortext, by Louis Armand
Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap, by Steve McCaffery
Traps or Tools and Damage, by Allen Fisher
Discontinued Meditations, by Steve McCaffery
Screening the Page / Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text, by Marjorie Perloff
The Poetics of Cyberspace: Two Ways to Get a Life, by J. Hillis Miller