Visit Sea and Spar Between 1.0.2 Visit Sea and Spar Between at The Winter Anthology Visit Duels--Duets Visit cut to fit the toolspun course, glossed code for Sea and Spar Between Reading the Dissolve: Submergence as Literary Method (2023) Nicholas Silcox Conceptualizations of the Invisible An Osedax Sea and Spar in ELC3 Sea and Spar in Slovakia Ron Silliman's Blog Chiara Ciociola: Digital Poetical Ocean Review at I ♥ E-Poetry Nick Montfort comments (2010) Nick Montfort comments on version 1.0.2 (2020)
Imagine the combined corpus of Emily Dickinson's poems and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The spaciousness of Dickinson's dashes – "you—too—" – merging with the oceanic churning of Melville's prose – "leagueless sing and steep." Stanzas assembled from words common to both and unique to each. As many stanzas as there are fish in the sea. Fast-fish, loose-fish, nailed to the desk or nailed to the mast, "dash on / for pauseless is the sea." The sparsity of two systems loosely coupled creates a vast verse-scape, settled at widely spaced intervals, chartable by longitude and latitude, navigable by keystroke, mouse-click, or scroll-wheel. The source code comments are prose of beauty and the minimal variable strings return rhythms, generate whole gestures. "listen now / then blameless is the sea."
— JR Carpenter, MCD (Musiques et Cultures Digitales) issue dedicated to electronic literature, edited by Emmanuel Guez, 2012