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267RECONFIGURINGNARRATIVEin the development of this new medium, one cannot tell whether the sheernovelty of the medium motivates foregrounding these writing resources, andlater hyperwriters will not do so, though I must admit that I find it difficultimagining literary hypertext that does not in this poetic manner make themost of its unique features.Certainly, as we have already seen, poetry appears throughout the docuverse,often in unexpected places. That is, we encounter poetry not only in theform of scholarly hypertext editions, such as Peter Robinson's Chaucer project,or in translations into the hypertextual, such as Espen Aarseth's Hyper-Card version of Raymond Queneauk Cent Mille Milliords de Foimes or lonLanestedt's and my In Memoriam Web.lt also appears brushing up againstother forms and modes, sometimes merely as a defining allusion within themidst of a prose fiction (afiemoon and foshua Rappaport's Hero's Focel andother times as part of a prose mystory (Taro Ikai's Electronic Zen). Karen Lee'sLexical Lattice demonstrates that poetry comes braided together with theoryand literary history. Poetry also shows up in the most unexpected placeswithin hypertext webs, none more so than in Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden,whereat least one of his link menus forms a sonnet!You will have noticed, I suspect, that more of the examples of both digital text and hypermedia textuality and rhetoric summoned in earlier chapterscame from poetry than from fiction. The dozens of poems on the Brazilian andSpanish CD-ROMs show poets themselves exploring the possibilities of bothanimated text and hypermedia. Almost all the works on the New River websitetake the form of hyperpoetry: David Herrstrom's "City of Angels and Anguish"and "To Find the White Cat," Stephanie Strickland's Vniverse, Christie Sanford's"Light-Water: A Mosaic," and Robert Kendall's'A Studyin Conveyance." Similarly,much of the Eastgate offering is hyperpoetry including works in Storyspace(Ed Falco's Ssa Island, Richard Gess's Mahasukha Halo, KathrynKramer's In Small and Large Pieces, and Kathy Mac's Unnaturol Habitats) andthose in other environments (fim Rosenberg's Intergrams, Robert Kendall's ALife Setfor Two, and ludy Malloy and Cathy MarshaTT's Forward Anlwhere: Noteson an Exchange between Intersecting Livesl. The enornous amount of hyperpoetryin the Electronic Literature Directory-twenty-nine screens of aroundten poems each-suggests the amount of it being written in hypertext.Hypertext poets have created their work in a wide variety of software environments,although HTM L and Flash have recently become the most popular.A number of them have used Storyspace, but lfilliam Dickey, one of the first(possibly the very first) hypertext poets, used HyperCard, some poets in France