Ok, one last jumping at the bait. If I say this again, I'll bore
myself to death: is it worth writing things that people don't read?
(Should a poet ask that question?) Should I once again point out that
"jump cut" is not a synonym for "cut" in film parlance, but a subset
of said cutting? And that while I absolutely fail to see how jump
cutting can be a useful term in poetic technique, I can see how one
could pillage the idea of editing film per se?
Alison's answer is: Because collage - the cutting up and
recontextaulising of disparate elements in a new matrix - is perfectly
transferable from image to language. Because a jump cut depends on a
quality of film - its literalism as a recorder of action - that poetry
does not possess.
That is all.
Now for my Sunday.
xA
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Bob Grumman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Had to get in one last dig at you, Alison:
> how come it's okay to speak of the use
> of collage, a visual poetry term, in The
> Waste Land, but not the use of jump-cut,
> a cinematic term?
>
> --Bob
>
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