A blackout from blackoutpoetryhollow:
I dream of words spoken into infinite space glittering on with heavy beauty, and shadow, and no shame
It’s so strange and kind of wonderful to see all of these blackout poetry Tumblrs popping up with no reference whatsoever to this site. I’m not even sure that most people know that Newspaper Blackout was the first of its kind. Crazy how the form has taken on a life of its own — there’s a small army of blackout poets out there! Onwards! —AK
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. But 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. To erase is to leave something else behind.
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| — | Jeannie Vanasco |
