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Radi Os
Radi Os is Ronald Johnson’s edit of Paradise Lost. It is unsurprising that Paradise Lost was used for erasure poetry; the title almost invites the process. The characters invite the process as well,...
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NETS
Jen Bervin’s NETS is a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets stripped down to the “nets” or perhaps base words as she sees them, creating a new poem within the context of the old sonnet, whose original...
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The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed (and RACTER)
RACTER is touted on the cover of The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed as being the first computer to publish a book of poetry and prose. Before even reading what ‘RACTER’ has written, I must call...
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The Ms of M Y Kin
This novel is also another erasure poetry book. The actual name for this book is called the poems of Emily Dickenson but using the erasure style, its title is called “The Ms of My Kin” by Janet...
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A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel
First let’s identify the similar ways this novel uses omission and highlights to change the context of the original poems, and then evaluate whether or not the novel was successful in creating a new...
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Of Lamb
Let’s identify the similar ways this novel changes the context of the original poems. With the identification, does this novel resemble poetry? Or is it something else? This novel is of different...
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Reality Hunger is a collection of quotes and anecdotes compiled by David Shields. Thus, Reality Hunger is not a typical erasure poem. Instead it is more along the lines of RACTER when it comes to...
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[where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG
Stephen Ratcliffe’s [where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG is an erasure of Shakespeare’s sonnets though perhaps ‘disassembly’ is a better word. Ratcliffe breaks down the sonnets so deeply that when handed...
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