Digital Poetry: a Naissance of a New Genre?

This paper will have as its main research object the study of digital poetics practices: creative practice and “lecture” practice. Reading is always reading, i.e. this action consists always in perceiving and picking up signs derived by the work of an “author”, however the order, the level of attention demanded by the reading of electronic texts, ambiguous, instable, fluid texts, is different. Computer and internet offer a new field to the creative game of writing: computer finds out the reticular nature of writing and the web space multiplies and disperses the dimensions. We will try then to identify the strategic elements which constitute the poetics of digital texts to establish how this emergent creative practice complicates the notion of genre. By considering the relation between poetry (verbal text) and images (audio-visual) we shall be analyzing digital poems which exemplify the structures and styles of this kind of new avant-garde genre