ABSTRACT
A love of language drove the author to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in French and English. In fact, she had always imagined living in Europe, the spiritual home of her mother, a first-generation American from what was then Czechoslovakia. An interesting phenomenon encountered in those early days of the author's graduate program was that most graduate students did not want to teach composition, much less teach composition with computers. The experience of Seaman’s computer generating its own poetry with not only words but images and sound clarified for the author where she needed to go with her life: electronic poetry and fiction with an emphasis on images and sound and an examination of what that means for literature and writing. Her first essay focused on print-based literature digitalized for the computer and argued for attending to the qualities of textuality possessed by the media.
