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 cover images by Basil King Find the book on Amazon > .... the arts are inevitably agents of “translation,” carrying a to b, as the latin root “transfere, translatus” would make clear. Cyberspace had already thus been entered with various events of this kind .... it is curious to see what comes of that here—and how the setting, call it, recognizes the situation of the people participating or possibly to be participating, as yourselves. R.C. DBVP #23 “I don’t think a book has so pleased me in years, just that it came so unintentionally to hand,” wrote Robert Creeley shortly after the Spuyten Duyvil publication of his Virtual Poet. “More than anything else, it was a place to say a great many things as a poet, to make clear what I valued …. to keep the faith in my own way.” An Elder, Creeley can be as youthful as the electronic text in which he corresponds, while the challenges posed by this new medium elicit from him the wisdom and knowledge of a seasoned poet as well as his sharp intelligence. Burt Kimmelman Throughout the text, Creeley’s enthusiasm never flags, and his playful language is wonderfully idiosyncratic (especially his reliance on the word dig). Wired Magazine     |
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