Cut-Ups

CUT-UP POETICS 

http://www.gotpoetry.com/Sections/op=viewarticle/artid=23.html

“Members of Burroughs’s “Beat” generation
had drifted from place to place, always moving
and their writing was similarly disjointed.” 
—Sarah Smarsh, It Happened in Kansas
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So it only makes sense that Burroughs’—
writing and visual art deal with motion

Setting paint flying at explosive speed—
one way of doing motion on canvas
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Sitting there in Lawrence—
and writing it is one thing

But trying to write what’s moving—
that’s a totally different artform
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Old representational methods—
didn’t work with Kansas landscapes

He turned to cut-up collages—
a new narrative technique was needed