Question
Along with Mail Art and so-called “SCIART,” Bern Porter produced work in this broad genre, which he compiled into a series published by Dick Higgins’ Something Else Press. For 10 points each:
[10m] Techniques like cut-up and the cento exemplify what genre in which poems are constructed from pre-existing texts? In a similar manner, Marcel Duchamp’s readymades exemplify a category of “objects” described by this adjective.
ANSWER: found [accept found poetry or Found Poems; accept found object or objets trouvés; accept blackout poetry; prompt on collage]
[10e] This writer claimed, “All writing is in fact cut ups,” in an instructional essay on the cut-up method, which he pioneered with Brion Gysin in the Nova Trilogy. This Beat author also wrote Junkie and Naked Lunch.
ANSWER: William S. Burroughs [or William Seward Burroughs II]
[10h] Objectivist poet and one-time attorney Charles Reznikoff sifted through decades’ worth of criminal court transcripts to assemble this long poem, which Charles Simic called a “brutal American epic.” Reznikoff followed it up with a similar work on the Holocaust.
ANSWER: Testimony
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