Thursday, April 10, 2008

Keep your eyes open ...

... Katie Haegele on Found Poetry. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

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  1. 'This brings us to another one of the remarkable hallmarks of [Jonathan] Williams' poetry: his ear for found (or "heard") poems. Perhaps the most famous of these is one included in this volume [Jubilant Thicket]: "Your points is blue/ and your timing's/ a week off," attributed to "Sam Creswell, My Auto Mechanic."'

    The late Mr Williams was known often '. . . to take dictation in the form of found poems: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WILL NOT/ AND OTHERS MUST NOT/ PULL THE FLOWERS IN THIS GARDEN."'

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