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Auto/Aura, Michael Wanzenried
Auto/Aura, Michael Wanzenried
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems, And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality
—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, section 6
Auto/Aura attempts to follow through on Whitman’s project by literally using materials from the world to create a situation that challenges the traditional reader-poet relationship. The poems here diverge from the page into a three-dimensional setting to continue in a largely personal and arbitrary lineage (as all poet-historical lineages tend to be according to Jerome Rothenberg) of 19th and 20th century poetic …