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Erasure is a form of found poetry or found art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.〔http://longform.org/stories/absent-things-as-if-they-are-present〕 The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas. Erasure is a way to give an existing piece of writing a new set of meanings, questions, or suggestions. It lessens the trace of authorship but requires purposeful decision making. What does one want done to the original text? Does a gesture celebrate, denigrate, subvert, or efface the source completely? One can erase intuitively by focusing on musical and thematic elements or systematically by following a specific process regardless of the outcome. Here is a nonce example using text from the November 2003 version of the English Wikipedia Main Page: :complete :and free :we started :and are :visit :experiment :you can :right now Several contemporary writer/artists have adopted this form to achieve a range of cognitive or symbolic effects. ==Examples== Doris Cross appears to have been among the earliest to utilize this technique, beginning in 1965 with her "Dictionary Columns" book art. d.a. levy also worked in this mode at about the same time. *''Radi Os'' - Ronald Johnson's ''Radi Os'' is a long poem deconstructed from the text of Milton's Paradise Lost. *''A Humument'' - Tom Phillips' ''A Humument'' is a major work of book art and found poetry deconstructed from a Victorian novel. *''Mans Wows'' - Jesse Glass' ''Mans Wows'' (1981), is a series of poems and performance pieces mined from John George Hohman's book of charms and healings ''Pow Wows, or The Long Lost Friend''. *''Nets'' - Jen Bervin's ''Nets'' is an erasure of Shakespeare's sonnets. *''Hope Tree'' - Frank Montesonti's ''Hope Tree'' is a book of erasure poems based on R. Sanford Martin's ''How to Prune Fruit Trees''. *''The O Mission Repo'' - Travis Macdonald's ''The O Mission Repo'' treats each chapter of ''The 9/11 Commission Report'' with a different method of poetic erasure. *''Erasing Infinite'' - Jenni B. Baker creates erasure poetry from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, one page at a time. *''The ms of my kin'' - Janet Holmes's ''The ms of my kin'' (2009) erases the poems of Emily Dickinson written in 1861-62, the first few years of the Civil War, to discuss the more contemporary Iraq War. *''Seven Testimonies (redacted)'' - Nick Flynn's "Seven Testimonies (redacted)" in ''The Captain Asks a Show of Hands'', is an erasure of the testimonies from prisoners at Abu Ghraib. *''Of Lamb'' - Matthea Harvey's ''Of Lamb'' is a book-length erasure of a biography of Charles Lamb. *''A Little White Shadow'' - Mary Ruefle's ''A Little White Shadow'' is a book-length erasure (done by painting over select words of a 19th century book). *''Voyager'' - Srikanth Reddy's ''Voyager'' is another book-length erasure, of Kurt Waldheim's autobiography. *''Tree of Codes'' - Jonathan Safran Foer did a book-length erasure of ''The Street of Crocodiles'' by Bruno Schulz which he entitled ''Tree of Codes''. *''(The Found Poetry Review )'' - A print journal publishing found poetry that goes beyond the simple addition of line breaks to found language and creates a piece whose form and meaning differs from the original. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erasure (artform)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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