Source Database: 
ELD
Source Entry URL: 
Source Entry OAI-PMH Identifier: 
oai:directory.eliterature.org:506
Author(s) of the Source Entry: 
Patricia Tomaszek
Source Entry Language(s): 
English
Description(s): 

"The Dreamlife of Letters" is a poet's playful meditation on the nature and function of letterforms in kinetic two-dimensional space. "Dreamlife" is a Flash animation, based on a text by the feminist literary theorist Rachel Blau DuPlessis, which explores the ground between classic concrete poetry, avant-garde, feminist practice, and "ambient" poetics. Stefans responds to DuPlessis by using words of her text: "all I did was alphabetize the words in it and then construct shorter poems from them." The short film runs about 11 minutes and shows letters that perform their "dreams" on the screen.