Literature Remix 5th

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"Here it comes" by Mariana Isara

http://typewhatyousee.blogspot.com/2011/09/here-it-comes.html

Description

This great poem has cleverly remixed several sources that deal with displacement and disruption and "the worlds of the source texts are broken up and used to create a new world in which a culture of disruption is created". Category sponsored by New Zealand Post.

Runners up in the Literature Remix category win a fine selection of Victoria University Press books. All 5 winners will be published in a Creative Commons licensed Mebooks e-book alongside the original authors’ works.

Selected judges' comments:

"Mariana's poem has at its core the experience of earthquakes and I think that she has approached the expression of this experience in a way that is original and very successful. In her work she remixing text sources which deal with displacement and disruption, in this way she chooses her pallet well, which I think is the first task of the remixer. But as if these works weren't disruptive enough, she disrupts them again by re-arranging not only their words but their images. In this way, the crane from Cheryl's gets tangled up in the orange of the monarch in Hinemoana's work. The Observation Hill from Lynn's work is suddenly in direct line with Gran's hill. I loved this. The worlds of the source texts are broken up and used to create a new world in which a culture of disruption is created. The work is a great poem in its own right but I think its process and sources give it even greater depth and really help express the experience through image as well as words which I think is one of the great things literature can do. I think this expression of experience through words, images and rhythm is what makes it so appealing."

The author's description of the entry:

I hope that my piece does justice to its literary sources and works on its own as a unique and cohesive poem.

Sources

• "Self-portrait at fifteen" by Hinemoana Baker, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand License.
• "This is about earthquakes" by Cheryl Bernstein Creative Commons
• Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
"She used to ask me, what is it like up there?" by Lynn Jenner (No Copyright).