How does a poem begin?
Most of my writing is created through a process which involves the cutting-up and collaging of my own daily freewriting. My process is a combination of the spontaneous prose techniques of Jack Kerouac, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs. I start by freewriting a section of text, not stopping to punctuate or worrying about whether or not what I’m writing makes any sense. I simply try to empty my brain, usually typing as quickly as I can, following Kerouac’s advice to “blow as deep as you want to blow.” Then I go through what I’ve written and highlight words or phrases that stand out to me. I begin to play with these pieces, putting them together, rearranging them, and looking for unexpected juxtapositions. I keep adding pieces which I’ve taken from my freewriting, collaging things together. This is most often the method I use to create a poem.
Jack Kerouac – Belief & Technique for Modern Prose
https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html
Jack Kerouac – Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-spontaneous.html
William S. Burroughs – Cut-up Technique
https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/burroughs-cutup.html
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