TY - ART
TI - New Word Order: Basra
AU - Sandy Baldwin
AB - "In the gaming environment of <em>New Word Order: Basra</em>, the player is invited to read, explore, and destroy words taken from a Billy Collins' poem, sample lines of which read, 'walk inside the poem's room/ and feel the walls for a light switch. They begin beating it with a hose/ to find out what it really means.' If interpretation itself disfigures poetic language, then the player of <em>New Word Order: Basra</em> makes that violence literal by using an arsenal of weapons (including a crow bar) to disfigure and reconfigure the words of Collins' poem." -- from <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2</em>
C3 - Web
PY - 2003
LA - English
M3 - 2D, Animated, Kinetic, Game, Poetry
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/697/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-02
ER -