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accretive newspoem
Scanned the front page of yesterday's Chicago Tribune and cut-and-pasted until I had the following (click on the image for a full-size PDF):
I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out, although there were times when I felt like I was either playing with a current-event-themed set of Magnetic Poetry or making a poster out of cut-up magazines for some high school project. Maybe needs a little more formal rigor?
It's also worth noting that most of the concepts behind this poem are getting on close to being 100 years old now: Tristan Tzara advocated making poems out of newspaper clippings as long ago as 1913, and Filippo Marinetti is using various font sizes and non-linear page layouts one year later (with some of the Russians and Parisians doing so even earlier). And yet there's a part of me that still feels like these forms are among the ones that are most relevant to the future...
Happy Halloween, and happy birthday to K. |
Monday, October 31, 2005
12:17 PM
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