The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems

by Theresa Malphrus Welford

Book Overview

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 \u201cThe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597091324
• ISBN13: 9781597091329
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"