November 6, 2012
The Weight of What’s Left [Out]: Six Contemporary Erasurists on Their Craft
The choice to use erasure as a poetic technique is not, strictly speaking, a new one: in 1969, for instance, Marcel Broodthaers erased Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le […]
September 12, 2012
Touching with the eye, seeing with the hand: erasure as reading experience
The term “erasure,” when used to describe a poetic technique, might be a kind of misnomer. To erase something is to “rub out or remove” it, according to the Oxford […]