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"There's four computing devices in this one room. I keep an old XP Machine going--with difficulty, these days. I liked Word 2003. I managed to get that and Word 2007 on that machine, and then I have a little small Acer, which is underneath there, which is actually probably the most advanced..."

From interview section 1, "Devices and Digital Practice"
0:00:00

"If you're writing something long with a complex argument, I think it's much easier to read and have it in front of you on paper and read it out, because it's very easy to go into a collaging kind of style with stuff that's going to be published online. It's harder to get a really consecutive--long, consecutive argument made, I think, or a thought, and it's not fluid enough to do poetry."

From interview section 2, "Physical vs. Digital Devices (Moving Between Media)"
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"Each technology actually gave rise to a certain kind of poetry and a certain kind of mystique."

From interview section 3, "Evolution of Technology and Poetic Influence"
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"I still had a car at that time, and I wasn't living in the city--and I put my IBM Selectric or whatever in, and would carry it out, or I would rent a computer to have at that place because I wanted the print out, and I still want the print out. It still looks different to me on paper than it does on the screen and you want to know both those aspects."

From interview section 4, "Writing Process and Practice"
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"And the other thing I do that's crazy is that I have some notebooks and then sometimes I go through the exact same notebook again and write into it so that it's actually a palimpsest of two different things that happen and there's no way that you would know from the outside."

From interview section 5, "Physical Practice (Writing In Notebooks)"
0:10:13

"I have kind of an elaborate folder system which, having worked in libraries, I'm pretty comfortable dealing with elaborate folders."

From interview section 6, "Transition from Physical to Digital Space"
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"I was extremely aware with every shift in software, every shift in functionality. It just kind of hits me--what I've lost and what I've gained of anything. So, I always needed to see it both ways."

From interview section 7, "Developmet of Digital Revision Process"
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"We've lost like a generation of design intelligence is what you might even say. Because people were exploring that and there wasn't enough time for other people to see it or think about it or whatever before the thing had shifted and moved on. So that all made me very annoyed and it seemed to me that nobody cared about the exploratory side of it--which they should have!"

From interview section 8, "Digital Environments and Opportunity"
0:24:07

"We need to communicate. The world's problems are global, whether climatologic or poverty or what have you, right? Water, whatever; resources, survival. So, you need to speak."

From interview section 9, "E-Literature As International Art Form"
0:30:00

"My father was an engineer. He had absolutely no use for words. Words were used by con men, lawyers and advertising men. That's it. Whereas the real world, right, was reliable and whatever, he could build anything or sell anything or fix anything or whatever."

From interview section 10, "Writing Career (From Early Work to Digital Projects)"
0:33:55

"My role is always to want something that supposedly can't be done, and then--that's why I like to work face-to-face, and almost always have, with the person. Because you need to just fool around with it and these glitchy funny things happen, and it's great."

From interview section 11, "Programming Languages and Collaborations"
0:46:55

"I kept throwing all these metaphor things on it. So, I did all the stuff about the number of fish in the sea, and all that. You kind of get the blue thing, but you learn so much from—you learn about each program, but as well—it's different sensibilities that you bring, you know?"

From interview section 12, "Writing Process and Workflow in Collaboration"
0:54:28

"I hear something as well as see something. Online it's often a visual thing, but in the manuscript it's like there's this leading tone..."

From interview section 13, "Design Aesthetic and Vision"
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"The poems are written that way: so that, if her brother is named, no matter where you start, you'll know it's her brother in some way. Things aren't dropped in. You can make sense of it. It's written so you can make sense of it from wherever you start. You'll have a different impression depending on where you start, and that was part of the point, right?"

From interview section 14, "Research and Revising for Sound (The Red Virgin)"
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"And I do like the collaborative process. I think everything has to become more collaborative, really. I think that's the stuff I'm most interested in: how can we make our--not meld our minds, but have different streams of expertise and interests--we have to learn to talk better to each other, I think."

From interview section 15, "Pre-Writing and Project Inspiration"
1:12:03

"I have friends that I correspond with but not in the sense of sending poems, which used to be in paper letters and now it's been mainly supplanted by e-mail."

From interview section 16, "Correspondence"
1:24:23

"I would never not want books. You could see that. The minute you start to do digital work, there's a certain way--in the same way that, if you're a theater person--that you have to let something go."

From interview section 17, "Archives and Files (What Gets Saved)"
1:28:53