"Despite exalted notions of the author, writers work with the
materials they find around them and try to hammer out some kind of
new thing with bits of discursive wood lying around and rusty nails
and old string and glue. What I am doing here might even be
compared to a film-maker creating a documentary out of other
people's bits of film and sound recordings, interspersed with some
slight commentary. Editing as creative act!"- From John Seed's
'Postface' to 'Brandon Pithouse'Smoke Rising is a documentary poem.
Very much in the tradition of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, it
utilises oral sources to capture the speech - and perhaps the
experience-of those who suffered the London Blitz. However, its
elective affinities are also to Walter Benjamin's great unfinished
Arcades Project: "to carry the principle of montage into
history...to assemble large-scale constructions out of the smallest
and most precisely cut components...to discover in the analysis of
the small individual moment the crystal of the total event."
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