How to Make a Dadaist Poem
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"How to Make a Dadaist Poem" (1920) is a text by Tristan Tzara. In this very short text, which reads like a poem, and which was in fact part of the Dada Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love, he claimed in that to create a Dadaist poem one had only to put random words in a hat and pull them out one by one.
"Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are—an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd."
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