This award-winning poem by Herrero is impressive in its language, imagery, design, and use of JavaScript while keeping a tight focus on its themes. Herrero explores a universe of possibilities for poetic expression, placing its lines of poetry in a number of responsive environments. This poem is very aware of where your pointer is on the screen, and you will too, because it forces you to make decisions from the outset about how you position and move it, what links to follow, and how you to interact with the work.
Don’t settle for the video of it. Download it and run it in your browser. It is a worthy experience that you shouldn’t miss, whether you can read Spanish or not.
Featured in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.
