The Poet as Cyber-Linguistic Programmer of Her Age: McCaffery.
This article posits that Steve McCaffery's radical poetico-graphic experimentation, from the 1970s through to the present day, is an exemplary site at which innovations in poetics and technology converge. At stake in McCaffery's multifaceted achievement are, among other issues: the composition of th...
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