For example, place names, seasons and months can function this way. There is no doubt that Ms. Stein laid the groundwork for fusion. I believe there are three other strong reasons writers began attempting genre fusion in the latter part of this century. First, many of us grew up watching movies and television. The motion picture medium provides an intensely visual and scenic experience.
Movies have the marvelous ability to transport characters rapidly from place to place over time.
Poetry has traditionally been a strongly imagistic, visual genre, while fiction has traditionally been a highly scenic and kinetic one. The dynamic and visual fuse in film and that quite naturally permeates literature . Of course, poetry is more than image and fiction is more than action. There are many ways to see essence. I have experimented with a number of starting points.