Editing Surrealist techniques (section)

==Echo poem==
An echo poem is a [[poem]] written using a technique invented by [[Aurélien Dauguet]] in 1972.  The poem is composed by one or more persons, working together in a process as follows.

The first "[[stanza]]" of the poem is written on the left-hand column of a piece of paper divided into two columns. Then the "opposite", or 'echo', of the first stanza, in whatever sense is appropriate to the poem, is composed in the right-hand column of the page.  The writing is done [[surrealist automatism|automatically]] and often the "opposite" stanza is composed of a [[phonetic]] correspondence to the first stanza.

For a longer work, the third stanza can then begin in the left-hand column as an "opposite" or a phonetic correspondence to what preceded it in the right-hand column. Then the fourth stanza might be an "opposite" or sound correspondence to what preceded it in the left-hand column, and so forth.  When the poem is completed, the echo of the last phrase, line, or sentence, generally serves as the [[title]].

This is unrelated to the non-Surrealist [[echo verse]] form which appears as a dialogue between the questions of a character and [[echo (phenomenon)|the answers]] of the nymph [[Echo (mythology)|Echo]].<ref name="Brotchie"/>