Among its examples it includes Jen Bervin's Shakespeare sonnets, Nets -
Doris Cross's dictionary columns (1956) were among the first examples. 'Doris Cross starts her work with columns from a 1913 Webster's dictionary. She then adds and subtracts elements using pencil and white paint, simultaneously creating and excavating meaning from the once-neutral pages of words and definitions. "Found words then comprise the statement" Cross writes in her opening statement, "words as objects, textures, movements, spaces, sounds; words supporting words, even as a column is built of mortar and stones." '
Other examples are Janet Holmes' The ms of m y kin (poems of Emily Dickinson)-
But the practice of erasure was most famously realised by the British artist Tom Phillips in his book A Humument and later, by the American poet Ronald Johnson, who erased Milton's Paradise Lost into a book called Radi os.
Version held at Patrick Spencer Library, University of Kansas |
It looks easy, it looks fun - perhaps too many people are doing it - or perhaps erasure poetry is a good way to get people involved with manipulating language.
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Here, Marcel Broothaers, "Un coun de des.."
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Pardon: the book´s title is "Un coup de des..."
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