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quotation collage

Form
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A poetic form assembled from multiple quotations arranged to create new meaning

Detailed Definition
Quotation collage is a poetic form that weaves together verbatim excerpts from diverse sources—literary texts, news reports, speeches, or songs—into a new composition that generates meaning through juxtaposition and intertextuality; this technique, central to documentary poetics, challenges notions of originality while exposing hidden connections between disparate voices and historical moments.
Example
Example in poetry:
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” quotations from Shakespeare, Dante, and Upanishads form quotation collage; In Susan Howe’s “Debths,” archival fragments and literary quotes create quotation collage; In M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!”, legal text and slave ship records form quotation collage; In Anne Carson’s “Nox,” Latin dictionary entries and family photos merge as quotation collage.
Additional Notes
quotation collage: Composition using excerpted quotations assembled collage-style; emphasizes polyphony of voices.
Also Known As
Quotation assemblage Citation collage Textual mosaic Commonplace poem
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