{"id":1050,"date":"2016-12-30T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:26:46","slug":"more-found-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/more-found-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"More poems found in unlikely places"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more poems from nonpoetic sources.<\/p>\n

\"Juan<\/a>

Juan Gris, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother<\/p><\/div>\n

I put the source of the first one after the poem itself, because I\u2019m curious how easily you can tell what it’s about. Please leave a comment letting me know.<\/p>\n

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\"surgery-poem\"<\/p>\n

This poem was\u2014how shall I say?\u2014carved out of an article in the January 2017 Vogue, <\/em>describing its author\u2019s ambivalence about having plastic surgery, then having it anyway. Sorry, no link\u2014it isn\u2019t online. And I don\u2019t have a copy of the original page because it wasn\u2019t my magazine and I didn\u2019t feel I could rip out the pages.<\/p>\n

This next one comes from an interview in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"dartmouth-poem\"<\/p>\n

In these days especially, I appreciate this generous, even open-hearted posture. Here’s one of the original pages:<\/p>\n

\"dartmouth-page\"<\/p>\n

These are such fun to do, and they\u2019re easy<\/em>. So I wondered why this form worked right away for me, while it didn’t for my mentee, who’s a really good poet but had difficulty getting the hang of it.<\/p>\n

I decided it has to do with my long experience as an editor, book doctor, and ghostwriter. I\u2019ve trained myself to spot the evocative, resonant phrases in a disorganized mass of text. I can perceive the underlying logic of a disordered string of sentences and reassemble them to express it. And I\u2019ve learned to write and edit in other people’s voices (notably, writing an entire book<\/a> in the he-man voice of a gym rat and bodybuilder). In the same way, a found poem distills an original text into an essence. At least I feel these do, in a weird way.<\/p>\n

I suspect that in the hands of a real poet, found poetry would be a whole lot more, but I\u2019m happy just to discover a knack for something I never thought I could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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