Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. The newest title by the well-know Bay Area writer and translator, Norma Cole, is a CD-ROM. Norma Cole's multimedia CD-ROM, SCOUT, mightbe a memoir without the meme, or the map of a place in memory not yetcome to. The surface of the earth buckled. At that point you / thoughtof the fault as an error. These are the/ necessary conditions. You arethe error. Beautifully photographed in San Francisco and Toronto, andwith voiceover narration by the author, this release also includes aseries of full-size images of the artist's book that accompanied thefirst performance of the text in the year 1999. SCOUT writes, speaks, and sites personal history not as the stable ground that guaranteespresent experience, but as a return to a field like that of RobertDuncan's imagining, a made place that shifts the borders of possiblelocales as it shifts among them--Taylor Brady. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 98 and higher, Mac OS 9.2 and higher, and Mac OS 10.1 and higher. Screen resolution of at least
