From The Futurist Moment by Marjorie Perloff:
“Each cited element breaks the continuity or the linearity of the discourse and leads necessarily to a double reading: that of the fragment perceived in relation to its text of origin; that of the same fragment as incorporated into a new whole, a different totality. The trick of collage consists also of never entirely suppressing the alterity of these elements reunited in a temporary composition” (The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture 47).
In Vincenz Serrano’s process of employing collage in poetry, he follows these steps:
- Gather materials from citation, photography, and notes while walking.
- Place the gathered materials together.
- Relate individual materials to their origin.
- Relate individual materials to their new whole.
To Do
- Add here Serrano’s discussion on collage.
- Add Cruz’s discussion of collage.
- Add my own thoughts from my Buhian essay.
- Also, could list the books I’ve read that employs collage.