Influenced by one of the translations (“El Gran Collage”) I keep referring to John Robert Colombo’s 1974 chapbook as The Grand Collage when is it “Great”.
200 copies for private circulation by the poet’s friends. Translations done by friends.
The Colllage, Great and Grand, is by Ludwig Zeller.
Excerpt (snippet for other collages):
We make and remake the Great Collage; we are made
and remade by the Great Collage.
We transfer and transform and transfigure and trans-
fix the Great Collage; we are transfered and
transformed and transfigured and transfixed by
the Great Collage.
Colombo has dedicated the poem to Kurt Schwitters, collagist extraordinaire.
And so for day 1586
17.04.2011