In this exercise each studio member is
to use the pastische method to create a "found poem" from
the the three texts selected below. Any passage may be
selected from each of the three texts, but be sure to use
all three texts in your "found poem".
Text 1: Selected by Karina Klesko:
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Descent Into The Maelstrom".
Link:
http://poestories.com/read/descent
Text 2: Selected by Neal Whitman:
Theater Review
From the Crucifixion to the Internet, You Are
There: ‘History of the World’ at the Living Theater
Link:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/theater/reviews/history-of-the-world-at-the-living-theater.html?ref=theater
Text 3: John Daleiden: Live Science. Easy Answers to Your Kids' Most Burning Questions:
Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/easy-answers-kids-most-burning-questions-133804573.html
All three of the above texts
have been uploaded to the foundpoetrystudio. To read
and use them 1). click files on the left side of the main
menu; 2). Open file: Exercises Found Poem; 3) Open each file
and select appropriate material from each file to include in
your pastische "found poem". Of course, you
may also use the links above to go directly to the on-line
text.
A definition of pastische from
Wikipedia:
A pastiche is a
literary or other artistic
genre or technique that
is a "hodge-podge"
or
imitation.
Hodge-podge:
In this usage, a work is called a pastiche
if it is cobbled together in imitation of several
original works. As the
Oxford English Dictionary
puts it, a pastiche in this sense is "a medley of
various ingredients; a
hotchpotch, farrago,
jumble." Thtois meaning
accords with etymology: pastiche is the French
version of the Greco-Roman dish
pastitsio or pasticcio, a kind of pie made of many different
ingredients.
When each participant has completed
his/her "found poem" using each of the 3 texts above, please
post the poem to the foundpoetrystudio:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foundpoetrystudio
Subject line: Exercise 3 + Title
Enjoy yourself--have fun!!!!