Play is excavation: the search for game poetry

  In 2004, a little-known Nevadan writer published the first book of video game poetry. The collection – sporting the lengthy title Blue Wizard is About to Die: Prose, Poems, and Emoto-Versatronic Expressionist Pieces about Video Games (1980-2003) – contained 47 video-game-centric poems, the majority focusing on the arcade games that defined the medium in ...