Talk:Found poetry

Newspaper Correction
From the Guardian "In our profile of Daniel Dennett (pages 20 to 23, Review, April 17), we said he was born in Beirut. In fact, he was born in Boston. His father died in 1947, not 1948. He married in 1962, not 1963. The seminar at which Stephen Jay Gould was rigorously questioned by Dennett's students was Dennett's seminar at Tufts, not Gould's at Harvard. Dennett wrote Darwin's Dangerous Idea before, not after, Gould called him a "Darwinian fundamentalist". Only one chapter in the book, not four, is devoted to taking issue with Gould. The list of Dennett's books omitted Elbow Room, 1984, and The Intentional Stance, 1987. The marble sculpture, recollected by a friend, that Dennett was working on in 1963 was not a mother and child. It was a man reading a book."

Found Poetry? --154.20.161.143 04:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

The extended examples included in this article give the impression that found poetry is trivial. In truth, the use of found texts is a major device in new poetry. I want to include some serious examples of found poetry here. 27 Dec. 2006.

Comment: I read this article several times over and I still don't know what found poetry is. if someone could clarify it more i think it would greatly improve the article. --Tainter 03:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Would song lyrics count as found poetry? John Lennon's "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite" is ripped almost entirely, word for word, off a poster of the Pablo Fanque Circus. --67.201.167.124 (talk) 01:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

If I recruited you
If I recruited you, here's a few ways you can help: Thanks, Justpassin (talk) 23:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Clarify-Tainter, above there, points out that the article isn't very clear on what found poetry is. This is still true.
 * 2) Expand on the ideas already in the article. I would know what to put in, if I knew more about what found poetry was.
 * 3) Found citations, and use them. Wikipedia won't ever be taken seriously unless we take this task seriously.
 * 4) At least watchlisting it as it seems to be a target for vandalism.

I also agree with tainter... someone please clarify nowwww.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.203.68.60 (talk) 16:47, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Removed and saved
Removing this for now since research has not turned up a source.(olive (talk) 14:45, 19 June 2008 (UTC))

"The first major example of the extended use of found poetry is Isidore Ducasse's Poesies."

The "citation needed".
Does not the article in footnote 2 -- which gives the verse and anecdote about the unamused Whewell removing it -- not serve as evidence for both these facts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.103.156 (talk) 19:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not quite sure what your point is - I don't see any 'citation needed' tag on the article. Perhaps you could clarify why you're asking? Olaf Davis (talk) 20:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

"Fagss" and "Treess"?
Found poetry is a type of slap created by taking fagss, treess, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry ...

Er, do these words belong in here? Do they even exist? They sent my spam alarm ringing, especially since they both link to the articles on "Fag" and "Tree" respectively as opposed to some obscure literary terms that I'm too ignorant to know about. I Googled both to make doubly sure that they aren't actually literary terms and couldn't find anything leading me to conclude that, so I deleted them both. If I was mistaken in doing that, however, please accept my humblest apologies and feel free to add them back in. 75.213.149.99 (talk) 13:17, 5 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for spotting the vandalism and taking helpful action! Man vyi (talk) 06:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)