Not Born Digital

<i>Not Born Digital</i> addresses from multiple perspectives - ethical historical psychological conceptual aesthetic - the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. <br/><br/>The premise of <i>Not Born Digital</i> is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded but nonetheless historically resonant materials to unsettle what Charles Bernstein a leading innovative contemporary U.S. poet and critic of official verse culture +? refers to as frame lock+? and tone jam.+? While other scholars have begun to analyze poetry that appears in new media contexts <i>Not Born Digital</i> concerns the ambivalent ways page poets (rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with screen memory+? (that is electronic and new media sources) through the re-purposing of found+? materials.