Found poetry appears throughout the novel, and is often considered a genre of poetry that emphasizes connection and cyclicality. Found poetry is poetry that uses an existing text as the basis for something new: the poet repurposes, refashions, and/or reorganizes pre-existing text to create a new poem out of an old one or simply out of texts that have been variously "found." Many interpret found poetry as a literary incarnation of the art form of collage.
Found poetry evolved out of the notion of intertextuality and literary sampling. Poets like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound frequently included allusions and quotations from other literary works into their own poetry, to the extent that their most famous poems are often read as a curated collections rather than individual works of genius. Evolving out of this tradition, found poetry relies on collating other texts in a meaningful and creative way, to both say something new and celebrate those who came before the poet. In this way, found poetry is often seen as a medium for expressing generational interconnection and familial bonds.
