Situating the Digital in Latin American Technopoetics

In this chapter, we explore definitions and typologies of digital poetry, drawing from studies on the topic from Anglophone and Latin American academic disciplines. It sets up the larger, pedagogically-focused, generational schematic employed in the book, drawing on a chronologically-organized model developed by Leo Flores. At the same time, a strength of this book is the emphasis placed on the specific cultural cartography of these poets, which is marked and transected by “the Latin American” in a very geo-techno-political and literary sense. This is the way that our book seeks to bridge the cultural and techno-poetic divides that exist between accounts of digital poetry in the Anglophone and European scenes of writing and those that explore the Spanish- (and Portuguese-) speaking one(s).