As Eliot Weinberger states in his introduction, from the moderns onwards, the juxtaposition of disparate elements, and the making of the strange through dislocation became an essential part of poetry. In here Weinberger chooses a few examples of a collage pasted onto an unfamiliar landscape. This is part of the Poetry Foundation's comprehensive "Poets of the World" series.|

Part of the Poetry Foundation's "Poets of the World" series, featuring poems about places—imaginary or real—the poet isn't from.