[New-Poetry] Visual poetry

[James Cervantes]

Experiential collages aside (my early college days were indeed collage), the
collage used in writing cannot be of the same nature (or have the same
impact)  as that used in graphic arts, because in the graphic arts you are
seeing the collage all at once, which can't happen with an art form with a
linear, discursive format - it can't be all-at-once, though of course it
could be if you had 2 or more performance folk reading 2 or more different
pieces at the same time.

Hard to approach the impact of Duchamp, Braque, Picasso, or Schwitters with
a piece of writing, however.  Then there are Joseph Cornell's boxes, which
are a three-dimensional collage, as well as mixed media, another kind of
collage, I think.

There's collage, and then there's collage.

- Jim

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> aren't texts a graphic use of the desert collage?
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
wrote:
> > Chris Lott wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 15:28, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > Basinski is one of my Major Poets, and I love these three things of his.
> >  I'm not sure I'd call them poems, though.
> >
> >
> >
> > I like 'em, though I usually see such things categorized as collage...
> >
> > c
> >
> >
> >
> > We agree--although I'd have to see the things life-size to determine if
> > their texts fuse with their graphics enough to seem visual poems to me.
> >
> > --Bob G.
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