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Poetry For The Gaming Crowd Reviewed

Posted by simoniker on from the amo-amas-amplitude dept.

Thanks to Game Girl Advance for their review of the videogame-related poetry book, 'Blue Wizard Is About To Die'. The reviewer comments: "Video games, the interactive art of corresponding actions to on screen visuals and audio cues, are inherently difficult to show. But who'd have thought that it'd be a poet from Las Vegas to finally get the feeling that goes along with video games right?" We've previously mentioned this unique book, which has an official website proclaiming that the tome "takes its readers on a psychotic and hilarious tour through the arcade and console games of the Eighties (and beyond)", and has garnered both effusive and not quite so positive reviews along the way.

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  1. A video game haiku by seraph93 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rounding the corner
    A head shot, unexpected
    Damn you, camping fag

    --
    Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
  2. So I read some of the excerpts on the webpage... by Snowspinner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wow.

    Those were some truly terrible poems.

    Like, they did not scan with interesting rhythm, they did not offer enlightening insights into the nature of being, or even into the nature of the games, and they were, at several points, slightly offensive.

    The fact that so many gaming sites seem to be head over heels from them really heightens the lack of geekiness I sometimes feel from being a humanities person.

    Oh well. I have a girlfriend, and I bet he doesn't.

    --
    Philip Sandifer's academic website
  3. So... by herrvinny · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We've previously mentioned this unique book

    So... /. editors know this is a dupe, yet they post it anyway. Terrific. So much for the "stuff that matters" slogan...

  4. I'd recommend buying the book by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 2, Funny
    For someone you really don't like.

    I had the misfortune to start reading the sample Joust "poem" and I'm still recovering.
    JOUST:

    i don't think there is much doubt that riding an ostrich
    is pretty gay, especially when done as some part of a renaissance festival gone
    horribly
    horribly
    wrong;
    but gliding on those wings, those feeble orange and yellow wings,
    Oh for fucks sake....
    --
    Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
  5. Re:So I read some of the excerpts on the webpage.. by NonSequor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Robert Frost once said that writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net.

    That said, there are a lot of people who don't understand the point of poetry. One of them wrote this book.

    --
    My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
  6. An NES Haiku by SuperMo0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I put the game in
    I jimmy the cartridge and hope
    The damn thing will play