Posts tagged Erasure

“Every choice I made was dependent on a choice Bruno Schulz had made. On top of which, so many of Schulz’s sentences feel elemental, unbreakdownable. And his writing is so unbelievably good, so much better than anything that could conceivably be done with it, that more often than not I simply wanted to leave it alone.” [an interview: part 1 and part 2; more info. here]

Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles)

Abraham Avnisan’s erasure project SIC: Deletions and Emendations (from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon, 1967/1900) Avnisan explains: “The constellation of Sic’s textual layers is open-ended: to make sense of it, the reader is invited to step into Freud’s shoes and interpret the texts and images for herself.” [more excerpts from the manuscript here]

Abraham Avnisan’s erasure project SIC: Deletions and Emendations (from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon, 1967/1900)

Avnisan explains: “The constellation of Sic’s textual layers is open-ended: to make sense of it, the reader is invited to step into Freud’s shoes and interpret the texts and images for herself.” [more excerpts from the manuscript here]

Jill Magid, The Kosinski Quotes: My Sensitivity, Silkscreen on Rives BKF paper [the system is based on the secret service practice of highlighting text to be erased, and my own personal system of marking]

Jill Magid, The Kosinski Quotes: My Sensitivity, Silkscreen on Rives BKF paper

[the system is based on the secret service practice of highlighting text to be erased, and my own personal system of marking]

Janet Holmes, THE MS OF M Y KIN (Shearsman, 2009), an erasure of Dickinson’s Civil War poems [+] 1861.4 (198-209). More pages here.

Janet Holmes, THE MS OF M Y KIN (Shearsman, 2009), an erasure of Dickinson’s Civil War poems [+] 1861.4 (198-209). More pages here.

Selections from Travis MacDonald’s The O Mission Repo [vol 2] (+; +) MacDonald’s new chapbook of O Mission erasures “Sight and Sigh” here.

Selections from Travis MacDonald’s The O Mission Repo [vol 2] (+; +) MacDonald’s new chapbook of O Mission erasures “Sight and Sigh” here.

Bradley Harrison’s “Gray,” the last in a series of erasures of his own poem “Her Problem of Gravity” (2012). Read them all over at The Offending Adam, here.

Bradley Harrison’s “Gray,” the last in a series of erasures of his own poem “Her Problem of Gravity” (2012). Read them all over at The Offending Adam, here.