I know this is boring, but in all those words, you didn't grasp what a
jump cut was, since IN FILM it's about continuous, not separate
images. But thanks for providing a sample.
It might, on the other hand, look something like this (I thought I'd
make up an example, since there's still not any offered).
weaving a basket
row one finished
row three finished
fingers making the handle
basket
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Desmond Swords
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> This week's guest on Best American Poetry blog, Washington artist Sandra Beasley; in yesterday's post describing a pearl-grit metaphor she applies to elucidate her position on Craft; strings together (in prose) three distinct and wholly seperate images
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> Weaving a basket
> jump-starting a gyroscope
> letting a horse out of the gate.
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> These, one thinks, illustrate perfectly what jump-cut in poetry, is.
>
> Working on the premise this is the opening of a Found piece, one can elide, strike-out phrases, snap-'shots' that, whilst not necessarily written with the creation of a found poem in mind, mostly appearing in their original form, as prose - yet still functions as a definition in verse, of the very conundrum y'all fakin yer can't grasp.
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