Tristan Tzara wrote down technique
instructions of how he believed to make a Dadaist poem. This was also known as the cut-up technique,
and goes simply as follows.
Take
a newspaper.
Take
some scissors.
Choose
from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut
out the article.
Next
carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all
in a bag.
Shake
gently.
Next
take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy
conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The
poem will resemble you.
And
there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even
though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
-Tristan Tzara
Now
to actually do and create this seems rather simple, and as if it takes a lot
less thought put in to the creation of a poem.
As Tzara says, you will have created a new "you".
Using a paragraph from scrap paper, lines were cut up, separating the intentional location of words from each other and placed in a cup. After the shaking and dumping on the table the pieces were assembled in this way.
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This may seem like a jumbled mess, but I invite you to read it aloud, for it most likely will not be completed by you without some sort of laughter, and realization that most falls in to place. After the papers were poured from the cup, that was the moment of the mess, where I had to rearrange and make a conscious decision to move, turn, or leave them upside down. It may appear as if there was no sense to the way they were laid out, but there is freedom in this.
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