from poets.org:
"Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.
A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside texts: the words of the poem remain as they were found, with few additions or omissions. Decisions of form, such as where to break a line, are left to the poet.
Many poets have also chosen to incorporate snippets of found texts into larger poems, most significantly Ezra Pound.
His Cantos includes letters written by presidents and popes, as well as an array of official documents from governments and banks."
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on ezra pound, the cantos & imagism: combined from wikipedia and poets.org
the cantos by ezra pound is a long, incompletely poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. a canto is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. the word comes from the latin cantus, meaning 'song'. ezra pound's cantos contains snippets of found text, letters written by presidents and popes, official documents from goverment banks, chinese characters and quotations in european languages. he relays a broad range of historical events that change abruptly with little transition. there is a wide geographical reference, branching from pound's interest in classical mediterranean cluture and east asia, selective topics from medieval and early modern italy, the united states, africa and england.
three parts of the cantos: canto i canto xiii canto xlix
he was largely responsible for the appearance of imagism. imagism was a modernist movement in poetry that favoured the precision of imagery and sharp language. they rejected the sentiment and rambling quality of romantic, georgian and victorian poetry. imagism called for a return to what were seen as more classical values - a direct presentation of language and a willingness to experiment with non-traditional verse forms.
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