TY - ART TI - Dinner for One AU - Cheryl E. Ball AB - "Dinner for One" is a hypermedia poetry collection. It was submitted by Ball as the "first interactive thesis" at Virginia Commonwealth University. The work "explores the themes of aloneness, sexuality, independence, and journies [sic] of discovery and distance. The Chinese zodiac stamps used as navigational elements in Dinner for One and the prose poems written as postcards to oneself and others reinforce the notion of travel. The fortunes from Chinese cookies give prophecies and horoscopes, reminding us of our fate, which is beyond our control. Dinner for One means to question, through poetry and interactive reading techniques, how much faith and trust we should hold in influences outside of our lives. The poems in this thesis are meant to be an examination of what we tell ourselves and, sometimes, make ourselves believe." -- Cheryl E. Ball, "Abstract" C3 - CD-ROM PY - 2000 LA - English M3 - Hypermedia, Poetry UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/1854/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-04-02 ER -