In True North, "award-winning poet Stephanie Strickland sweeps poetry and hypertext, tumbling ideas, histories, numbers, maps, and legends into a passionate meditation on navigation - on all that is involved in finding "true" north.
Transmuting worlds, lives, and idioms into a powerful whole, Strickland brings together Bell's Theorem, quaternions, Noah Webster, Mother Goose, laser gyroscopes, the lives of Emily Dickinson and Josiah Willard Gibbs, the Amistad mutiny, and the MX missile, to tap a human voice deep within universal abstraction. -- Eastgate Systems, Inc.
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The Stephanie Strickland Collection
An unpublished copy.
This is a backup copy on CD-ROM, bundled with To Be Here as Stone Is and created by Stephanie Strickland on 8/6/97. Numbered Archive No. 1. This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Stephanie Strickland in Spring of 2018.
The Stephanie Strickland Collection
An unpublished copy.
This copy on a generic CD-ROM was bundled with Errand Upon Which We Came, To Be Here as Stone Is, and The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot. The CD-ROM was created by Margie Luesebrink for Stephanie Strickland on 8/6/97. Hand-typed materials accompany this copy. This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Stephanie Strickland in Spring of 2018.
The Stephanie Strickland Collection
An unpublished copy.
This copy on a generic CD-ROM is labeled in the artist's hand and indicates that it contains True North as well as files for "TRUEPRES" and "TRUSTONE" as well as "SS." It is dated 9/20/98, though the CD-ROM case is dated 9/19/98. This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Stephanie Strickland in Spring of 2018.
The Stephanie Strickland Collection
An unpublished copy.
This copy on a generic CD-ROM is labeled in the artist's hand "True North," "Presentation + STORYSPACE Versions," and dated 9/24/97. Identified as Archive B. The CD-ROM jacket includes hand-written instructions for how to run the work from the CD-ROM. This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Stephanie Strickland in Spring of 2018.