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“What a man does either repeats or refutes what someone else has done-repeats it in other tones, refines or amplifies or simplifies it.” But instead of concealing or denying their influences, erasurists acknowledge that they have come from somewhere, not nowhere, and make clear the chaotic process of creating art. “We say that an author is original when we cannot trace the hidden transformation that others underwent in his mind,” Valery wrote. Erasure is simply an exaggerated form of writing. Ginsberg shows us that by imitating the style of other writers, as well as by resisting them, a writer develops his or her own style. She points to Allen Ginsberg, who was very open about his influences: The motto of Modernism, Ezra Pound’s “Make it new,” is a translation of Confucius who borrowed it from Emperor T’ang who inscribed on his bathtub “Every day make it new.” I want you to take existing poems and stories by other writers and make these works new.

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Like Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanasco even uses the form in her creative writing class at NYU ( here’s the PDF of the syllabus) To erase is to leave something else behind.

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Why erase the works of other writers? The philosophical answer is that poets, as Wordsworth defines them, are “affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present.” The More practical answer: compared to writing, erasing feels easy.īut I am here to convince you: to erase is to write, style is the consequence of the writer’s omissions, and the writer is always plural. Create and download blackout poetry online with the blackout poetry Maker from. What I like about the piece is that unlike some writers who take an apologetic or condescending tone towards erasures, Vanasco actually champions the form: (Unfortunately, Blackout was not one of the texts mentioned.) 1 A lot of the artists mentioned (Tom Phillips, Mary Ruefle, Thomas Jefferson…) will be familiar to anybody who’s read the history chapter of Newspaper Blackout. Nice long piece by Jeannie Vanasco this month in The Believer ( now on Tumblr!) about writing by erasure. A History Of Literature Created By Erasure, Collage, Omission, And Wite-Out”

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