Cutting-Up Art and Crowdsourcing

Poems

Dan Simpson

Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic- Hannah Höch, 1919

Portrait of Tristan Tzara- Lajos Tihanyi, 1927

Writing is fifty years behind painting.- Brion Gysin, 1964

Open Letter to Life Magazine from Minutes to Go- Brion Gysin, 1960

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.- William S. Burroughs, 1960

The permutated poems set the words spinning off on their own; echoing out as the words of a potent phrase are permutated into an expanding ripple of meanings which they did not seem to be capable of when they were struck into that phrase.- Brion Gysin, 1964

It's been fun being part of National Poetry Day 2012 thanks to you A strange combination of importance and pride with the feeling that I'm just a small part of something bigger. Makes me feel more creative than if I wrote one or two lines of poetry on my own. It made me smile! I felt happy. I felt like I'd made a real contribution to the poem. I felt like a poet.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard.- William S. Burroughs, 1963

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