That's not jump cutting it's listing.
Tim A.
On 6 May 2010, at 17:01, Desmond Swords wrote:
> 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
>
> Weaving a basket
> jump-starting a gyroscope
> letting a horse out of the gate.
>
> 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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