Kinetic Poetry; the medium is the metaphor

 

I am a huge fan of poetry and enjoy reading it frequently. This chapter and the works for this week were a testament to how much I really love poetry. The beauty of "Dear e.e." by Lori Janis and Ingrid Ankerson was a very interesting, chaotic form of kinetic poetry. Between the music and the fast pace of the imagery flying by, though it may be hard to absorb all of its contents with how fast the main portion of the piece is, it's a beautiful idea with the use of furniture and poems attached. It is basically put together and taken apart, and put together and taken apart again; as Rettberg says, it is manipulated. 

The kinetic poem, "In the white darkness" by Reiner Strasser, was a beautiful poem, but it was difficult for me to understand where it was going or establish a pattern. The idea of it being about the fragility of memory is very beautiful to me, and it is set up as memories being shown in fragments. The fifth chapter in Rettberg's "Electronic Literature" notes, "Words and letters are not only carriers of meaning but material objects that themselves have variable properties." (pg. 118) Kinetic poetry goes beyond the functions of hypertext, as digital poetry is not only generative. 

"Cruising" by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapner, uses multiple mediums like voiceover, music, visuals, words to capture this interesting piece. It appears to me to be a coming of age piece, with a young voiceover. It's very fast which emulates the idea of "cruising". It shows a young woman putting on makeup in between a series of cars. Its a very interesting poem to view and interact with. As the line of what looks like, film, begins extremely fast and gets slower and then speeds up and then slows back down.