Begun in the late 1990s, this collaboration became one of the better known examples of an experiment with poetic hypertext. Now LITERATURE NATION is published for the first time as a book. "At some years' remove now, it strikes me that LITERATURE NATION is a love poem for the languescapes we inhabit and for the process of writing itself: intimate forms of creative survival in our favorite earthly settings--our respective homes, connected by the electronic impulses of our "interwriting," a process tracing out our engagement with the everyday. It is suffused with warmth, banter, excitement about the doings of the elements, our daily meals and activities, and shared discovery of each others' words as incitement to connection with the world wide web of interbeing"--Maria Damon.