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  • History of Experimental Literature
  • Hakim Bey's Poetic Terrorism and Wild Children
  • Ezra Pound on Language in Poetry
  • Dadaism
  • Surrealism
  • Automatic Writing
  • Film-makers use jump cuts, freeze frames, slow motion.
  • Origins of a Dub Fiction
  • Cobralingus Engine - Meta­morphiction Process
  • How to make a modern novel
  • Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
  • Salvador Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method
  • The Collage Technique of Anaïs Nin
  • Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses
  • Ginsberg's Mind Writing Slogans
  • The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
  • Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
  • Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
  • William S. Burroughs Cut-ups
  • Isidore Ducasse ( Comte de Lautréamont )
  • The Creative Act by Marcel Duchamp
  • Poetic Techniques: Chance Operations
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  • Poetic Forms Glossary
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  • Writing Techniques ▾
    • History of Experimental Literature
    • Hakim Bey's Poetic Terrorism and Wild Children
    • Ezra Pound on Language in Poetry
    • Dadaism
    • Surrealism
    • Automatic Writing
    • Film-makers use jump cuts, freeze frames, slow motion.
    • Origins of a Dub Fiction
    • Cobralingus Engine - Meta­morphiction Process
    • How to make a modern novel
    • Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
    • Salvador Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method
    • The Collage Technique of Anaïs Nin
    • Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses
    • Ginsberg's Mind Writing Slogans
    • The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
    • Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
    • Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
    • William S. Burroughs Cut-ups
    • Isidore Ducasse ( Comte de Lautréamont )
    • The Creative Act by Marcel Duchamp
    • Poetic Techniques: Chance Operations
    • Poetic Form: Found Poem
    • OULIPO
    • Asemic Writing
    • Haibun, the Japanese Essay
    • Poetic Forms Glossary
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  • Read ▾
    • The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire
    • Short Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry by Donna Tartt
    • The Poems of May Sarton
    • A Retrospect by ezra pound
    • Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking Glass
    • Les Chants de Maldoror by Le Comte de Lautréamont
    • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    • Sacred Emily by Gertrude Stein
    • Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
    • The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey
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