A
pioneer in e-literature, Stephanie Strickland
wants us to write and think in new ways. Her newest work, V, an
elegy to Simone Weil, is not only a fine lyric poem, it is highly innovative
in form. The printed book has no beginning or end - it is an invertible
volume that a reader can enter from either cover (there is no front or
back). At the V-fold of the book's open center, the reader can
then jump to V's third section, http://vniverse.com. On one of
the two p. 34s in the printed volume the poem advises: “Gentle reader,
begin anywhere. Skip anything.”
Her collections of poetry include Give the Body Back; The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil, winner of the Brittingham Prize; and True North, winner of the Di Castagnola Prize and the first Sandeen Poetry Prize. True North hypertext was published on disk by Eastgate Systems and awarded a Salt Hill Hypertext Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and she is the recipient of many awards.
Margo
Stever's poetry collection, Frozen Spring, is the winner
of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry, an award given annually
for an outstanding manuscript by a writer who has yet to publish a book-length
work of poetry. Poet Robert Creeley comments: “Margo Stever listens to
every sound, every edge of word that she uses here, so as to ‘get said
what must be said’ in an otherwise brutal world. She is an impeccable
poet, and this book proves it absolutely.”
Ms. Stever's poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies and in 1996 she received the Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Award for Reading the Night Sky, which was published by Riverstone Press.
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