"How does Rilke get from his admiration of the statue to his closing phrase - 'Du mu�t dein Leben �ndern' ('You must change your life')? Why should a marble torso, however magnificent, seem to be sending him (and us) such a powerful challenge?"

Taking Rilke's famous poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" as his starting-point, Edward Picot's new work of hyperliterature provides first a commentary on the poem, then an undercommentary, and finally a poetic response of his own, animated in Flash, with hurtling fragments of Greek statuary.

The New Media artist and writer Millie Niss has just opened up her website to work from guest artists, and Edward Picot is the first to appear there. 

• "Rilke and the Archaic Torso"
•  The Hyperliterature Exchange