| a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem. |
| found poem n. The presentation of a borrowed text or found object as a poem or as part of a poem. |
found poem
a poem consisting of words found in a nonpoetic context (such as a product label) and usually broken into lines that convey a verse rhythm. Both the term and the concept are modeled on the objet trouve (French: "found object"), an artifact not created as art or a natural object that is held to have aesthetic value when taken out of its context
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