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- The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
As Gertrude Stein might have put it, a cento is a collage is a mix tape is a video montage.
This hypothetical description is fitting in a number of ways. Although the cento form is ancient—in existence since at least the days of Virgil and Homer—it was also used to striking effect in the Modern era: consider, for example, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Ezra Pound's Cantos.
More recent centos include John Ashbery's "The Dong with the Luminous Nose," Peter Gizzi's "Ode: Salute to The New York School 1950-1970" (a libretto), Connie Hershey's "Ecstatic Permutations," and the "Split This Rock Poetry Festival - Cento, March 23, 2008" (a collaborative protest poem delivered in front of the White House).
The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, edited by Theresa Malphrus Welford and with an introduction by David Lehman, features an extensive sampling of centos, collage poems, and patchwork poems written by Nicole Andonov, Lorna Blake, Alex Cigale, Allan Douglass Coleman, Philip Dacey, Sharon Dolin, Annie Finch, Jack Foley, Kate Gale, Dana Gioia, Sam Gwynn, H. L. Hix, David Lehman, Eric Nelson, Catherine Tufariello, and many others.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 21-24
- Robot Woman
- p. 31
- Ecclesiastes Redux
- pp. 32-33
- Morning with Pessoa
- pp. 35-36
- Holy Terror
- pp. 37-39
- Solace from Marianne
- pp. 40-41
- Cento Canto
- pp. 42-46
- Duke Ellington
- p. 47
- Terminal Signs
- p. 48
- Debbi Brody: Santa Fe Soul Cento
- pp. 54-58
- There Was Only the Sound of the Sea
- pp. 60-61
- Sea and Sky
- p. 62
- I had some things
- p. 64
- How the Animals Came Into this World
- pp. 67-68
- Clooth-na-Bare
- p. 69
- Things to Remember about Shafting
- pp. 71-72
- Char’d Endings
- p. 78
- The Witness
- pp. 81-84
- A Villanella
- p. 85
- My Mother’s Ashes
- pp. 86-87
- Compassion for Scarpia
- pp. 95-97
- Call Me Pier
- p. 98
- Men of Our Time
- pp. 99-100
- Cento (Mark Doty, Atlantis)
- pp. 103-104
- Cento: Falls the Shadow
- p. 106
- A Short History of Tobacco
- pp. 107-108
- Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain
- pp. 109-110
- An American Cento
- pp. 118-119
- On Finding a Book of Poems
- pp. 120-121
- Burns Festschrift
- p. 122
- Gwendolyn Brooks: Medley of Wisdom
- pp. 123-124
- Letter to Dana Gioia
- pp. 125-127
- Letter to Philip Brady
- pp. 128-129
- Exercises in Subordination
- pp. 131-132
- Twenty Couplets
- pp. 134-137
- At the Hour of Love and Blue Eye Lids
- pp. 138-142
- Let the Snake Wait
- p. 155
- Volatile Territories
- p. 156
- December 14
- p. 157
- Touchstones
- pp. 158-159
- Caught by the Light: A Cento
- pp. 160-162
- That Would Be All of It
- p. 163
- Last Words: A Cento
- p. 170
- Emily, Walking
- p. 171
- Astrophel and Stella
- p. 173
- Grimm Cento #2
- pp. 176-177
- Dickinson’s Island
- p. 178
- Dreaming Myself
- pp. 179-180
- Ballade Confessionnelle: Plath and Sexton
- pp. 182-183
- Cento, Selected Works
- pp. 186-188
- Fall Runway Report
- p. 189
- Wander Woman
- p. 190
- Dove Promises
- p. 191
- Stolen Wind Poem
- pp. 193-194
- Map of Bones
- pp. 196-197
- Lion Tamarins
- p. 198
- Word Balloon
- p. 199
- Now Is the Time
- pp. 200-201
- Blood Bath
- pp. 202-203
- New Mother Cento
- p. 205
- Never Start a Sentence with There
- pp. 207-208
- A Cento of Houses
- pp. 209-210
- On Silk and Soul
- pp. 211-212
- Things to Remember
- p. 213
- Standing Here/Now
- pp. 220-222
- Like a Wide River
- pp. 226-227
- Paraphrase in Time of Thaw
- pp. 228-231
- About the Author
- p. 232
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597093293
Related ISBN(s)
9781597091329
MARC Record
OCLC
867786097
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No