We're surrounded by messages in the culture all the time. We're not always aware of these messages, so collage is a way to force awareness out of the random flow of information that's constantly bombarding us. A lot of the work I've done comes out of advertising, flyers off the streets or signposts. I actually physically collected a lot of these pieces of paper, which then contributed to the visual collages in this book. I'd lay these papers out on the table, and put them together like I would put together a jigsaw puzzle.
Repetition helps a reader read a poem rythmically .
I also think that there is a psychological construct at work in employing repetition. One goes through repetitions of thought neurotically, and a lot of this book tries to document that. I wanted to chart out what was happening in my head. A map of the mind at work. Through the use of those repetitive phrases I came closer to writing exactly what was going on in my brain at particular moments.