August 10, 2001

Students' Poetry Web Site Showcases Hypertext Verse

By JESSICA LUDWIG

Words, along with images of a car driving down a street, run like a film unspooling through a still picture of a woman applying lipstick. At times, the words are distant and unreadable, but a voice recites them to a strumming guitar. Move the cursor, and the film flows from left to right, or from right to left, filling the screen and then receding, creating a visual Doppler effect.

Such is the feeling of motion in "Cruising," one of the digital poems in the spring issue of Poems That

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