Flower Made Flesh

INTRODUCTIONThis project began after reading Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project.I have become fascinated with idea of the fragmentary nature of history and the fragmentary nature of experience.I began the first series of poems, by taking fragments from many different sources and then combining them into one poem or text.From these fragments, I then synthesized the poem, using the fragments from the different sources and additionally adding my own lines.The later series of poems are more closely defined as found poems, poems found in the non- poetical text of the original without out any additions or only minor changes.I hope you enjoy my serendipitous discoveries