On the art of collage
On the art of collage and the “most important” poet, 2010
Bang reflects on the impossibility of naming a single “most important” contemporary poet. She compares the question to tracing all contemporary music back to one figure. She argues that poetic history mirrors real history—“tanks and such, plus ideas”—and that no single poet can bear the weight of an entire era. She also notes the use of collage‑like poetics, which she traces back as far as the French prose poet Rimbaud, whose innovations predate Surrealism. This interest in collage also connects with her own work, both poetry and visual art.