{"product_id":"the-poem-electric-seth-perlow-9781517903664","title":"The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Many poets and their readers believe poetry helps us escape straightforward, logical ways of thinking. But what happens when poems confront the extraordinarily rational information technologies that are everywhere in the academy, not to mention everyday life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining a broad array of electronics--including the radio, telephone, tape recorder, Cold War-era computers, and modern-day web browsers--Seth Perlow considers how these technologies transform poems that we don't normally consider \"digital.\" From fetishistic attachments to digital images of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts to Jackson Mac Low's appropriation of a huge book of random numbers originally used to design thermonuclear weapons, these investigations take Perlow through a revealingly eclectic array of work, offering both exciting new voices and reevaluations of poets we thought we knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith close readings of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, and many others, \u003ci\u003eThe Poem Electric\u003c\/i\u003e constructs a distinctive lineage of experimental writers, from the 1860s to today. Ultimately, Perlow mounts an important investigation into how electronic media allows us to distinguish poetic thought from rationalism. Posing a necessary challenge to the privilege of information in the digital humanities, \u003ci\u003eThe Poem Electric\u003c\/i\u003e develops new ways of reading poetry, alongside and against the electronic equipment that is now ubiquitous in our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth Perlow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517903661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517903664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Seth Perlow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46334486905087,"sku":"9781517903664","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a8171ee-3892-46df-8299-952ea086e439.jpg?v=1731466962","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-poem-electric-seth-perlow-9781517903664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}