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on subject matter
"I turned to collage early, to get away from writing poems about my overwhelming mother. I felt I needed to do something 'objective' that would get me out of myself.
"I would take a novel, take one or two words from every page, and try to make a structure. But when I looked at the collage poems a while later: they were still about my mother.
"This was a revelation—and a liberation. I realized that subject matter is not something to worry about. Our concerns and obsessions will surface no matter what we do."
—Rosmarie Waldrop, "Collage and the First-Person Singular"
A nice, lengthy essay about Waldrop's use of collage can be read here. Labels: collage, creative_process |
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
1:38 PM
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