Experimental Writing: Unlock Your Creativity
Visual Poem Concepts
A course by Mara Pastor , Writer
About the video: Visual Poem Concepts
Overview
“Have you repurposed something to give it a new meaning? I will tell you about what happens when a text is crossed out in conceptual terms. ”
In this video lesson Mara Pastor addresses the topic: Visual Poem Concepts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Writing: Unlock Your Creativity. Learn to write unique texts and poems by playing with word associations, original ideas, and the strikeout technique .
Partial transcription of the video
“visual poem concepts In this lesson we will talk about what happens in conceptual terms when we cross out a text. To start, think about what happens when we resignify an object or change its function. You add an element of surprise, you exercise ingenuity, save raw material and you even protect the trees. Similarly, conceptually, When you intervene in a book, you change the meaning or the discourse or you add new meanings through erasure. To explain this to you, I want to talk about Mary Ruefle, who chose a 19th century book that had been forgotten to write "A Little White Shadow", "A littl...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Writing: Unlock Your Creativity
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling
Mara Pastor
A course by Mara Pastor
Mara Pastor is a Puerto Rican poet, editor, and literature professor with a passion for words, as well as visual arts and collage. For her, poetry is like a linguistic playground, an open space to let her imagination run free and embrace the unexpected results.
She has published poetry books around the world with publishing houses like Punto de Partida, Cardboard House Press, and University of Arizona Press, and her poems have been featured in magazines such as World Literature Today. Her work has also earned her an Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
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