LAST POEM / FOUND POEMS

So-- read below and go to links and find a way in to your own found poem... a cento, an erasure, a transmogrification (writing from one random line to another) or create your own form.  You can even do this by self-plagiarizing -- using several of your own texts as raw materials. the point is to create OUT OF existing materials, to view yourself as conductor rather than all-powerful creator... and see if the role suits you. Wolf Cento
by Simone Muench
Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf at a live heart, the sun breaks down. What is important is to avoid the time allotted for disavowels as the livid wound leaves a trace      leaves an abscess takes its contraction for those clouds that dip thunder & vanish like rose leaves in closed jars. Age approaches, slowly. But it cannot crystal bone into thin air. The small hours open their wounds for me. This is a woman's confession: I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me. Sources: [Anne Sexton, Dylan Thomas, Larry Levis, Ingeborg Bachmann, Octavio Paz, Henri Michaux, Agnes Nemes Nagy, Joyce Mansour, William Burroughs, Meret Oppenheim, Mary Low, Adrienne Rich, Carl Sandburg] ERASURE EXAMPLES (some links below, from Wikipedia) Radi Os - Ronald Johnson's Radi Os is a long poem deconstructed from the text of Milton's Paradise Lost.[1] A Humument - Tom Phillips' A Humument is a major work of book art and found poetry deconstructed from a Victorian novel. Mans Wows - Jesse Glass' Mans Wows (1981), is a series of poems and performance pieces mined from John George Hohman's book of charms and healings Pow Wows, or The Long Lost Friend. Nets - Jen Bervin's Nets is an erasure of Shakespeare's sonnets. [2] Hope Tree - Frank Montesonti's Hope Tree is a book of erasure poems based on R. Sanford Martin's How to Prune Fruit Trees. The O Mission Repo - Travis Macdonald's The O Mission Repo treats each chapter of The 9/11 Commission Report with a different method of poetic erasure. The ms of my kin - Janet Holmes's The ms of my kin (2009) erases the poems of Emily Dickinson written in 1861-62, the first few years of the Civil War, to discuss the more contemporary Iraq War. Seven Testimonies (redacted) - Nick Flynn's "Seven Testimonies (redacted)" in The Captain Asks a Show of Hands, is an erasure of the testimonies from prisoners atAbu Ghraib. Of Lamb - Matthea Harvey's Of Lamb is a book-length erasure of a biography of Charles Lamb. Voyager - Srikanth Reddy's Voyager is another book-length erasure, of Kurt Waldheim's autobiography. Tree of Codes - Jonathan Safran Foer did a book-length erasure of The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz which he entitled Tree of Codes. The Found Poetry Review - A print journal publishing found poetry that goes beyond the simple addition of line breaks to found language and creates a piece whose form and meaning differs from the original. FOR TREE OF CODES    GO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsW3Y7EmTlo