this is a worthwhile read (along with a more precise comment on collage
and why my use of collage narrative is an imprecise stretch of terms at
best)
http://marjorieperloff.com/stein-duchamp-picasso/armantrout-poetries/
Armantrout herself suggests that what she is writing is collage. “I do a
kind of faux-collage where I’m mixing familiar tones and voices—say the
diction of a TV anchor man with that of an Alzheimer’s patient” (WS 12).
But collage is actually not quite the right term for Armantrout’s
“tone-shifting” and “peculiar overlaps,” as she calls them, for collage
entails the juxtaposition, on the same verbal plane, of concrete images
pasted together, whereas an Armantrout poem consists of a sequence of
tenuously interconnected clauses and phrases, where the connections
between abstract statements are regularly blurred.
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