04 July 2008

Derivative

"Makes me feel bookish as hell -- all these being poems made out of other pieces of writing. Then again, I've always carried as a touchstone a weird little moment of television I caught on a moniter in an airport when I was in highschool: a young Italian fashion designer was being interviewed by a woman who accused him of being derivative. 'I combine the things I love, the things that fascinate me, things that have already been made. I am not ashamed of this.'"
~ Robert Archambeau, "Two New Poems" (at Samizdat Blog)

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