This Is Not A Poem

“This Is Not A Poem” is an interactive Flash-based digital work that includes audio, text, and video. It opens with the sound of a tree falling, a seemingly disassociated sound that will develop into a central motif. Once past the title screen, the initial image readers confront is a disk with an inner and outer circle, suggestive of a CD. On the outer circle are images of oversized color paper clips. The inner circle holds the text of Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Trees.” Bigelow presents the poem without authorship, an omission that anticipates another motif of the work.

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