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I'm such a damn goth kid.
Taken from Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," from the Platt & Munk edition of EDGAR ALLAN POE STORIES, 1961. Pages 104-105. (Lovingly scanned by PinkyMcCoversong)
This travesty produced to participate in the Found Poetry Workshop at Writers-Workshop:
Taken from Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," from the Platt & Munk edition of EDGAR ALLAN POE STORIES, 1961. Pages 104-105. (Lovingly scanned by PinkyMcCoversong)
This travesty produced to participate in the Found Poetry Workshop at Writers-Workshop:
Found Poetry: How-To #1: ErasureHuzzah! The Workshop has begun!
So, you did some reading, right? RIGHT? And you've got your erasure tools ready? White out, sharpie, Photoshop? Or maybe you're just going to type up the words in order, cutting out what you don't need. That's cool, too. As long as you're ready to get erasing.
To catch up, here's what you already know about Erasure:
Erasure poetry (sometimes called blackout or whiteout) is created when the author literally erases certain words of a source text, leaving the remaining words and phrases to create something new. You can do this visually, with editing software on your computer or with a sharpie or White-Out on a book/photocopy. Or, you can just write out the words and phrases that you keep into a new document, adding or subtracting punctuation and changing capitalizations, creating new stanza breaks, etc., as long as the words appear in the same order that they appeared in the original text. And here's the kick-off journal, i
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- Did the poet intervene on the text? Meaning, is this something new, or is it merely a summarized version of the original text?
Something new. - Does the work fit in the category that it's been placed?
Arousal says it all. - Can you hear the poet's voice in the new narrative?
Yes. - Does the poem work on it's own? Grammatically and syntactically, is it solid, just like a non-found poem should be?
It's hard to tell in the visual format - well, for me it's hard to tell. - Is there a narrative here, or is it just a list? Does the poem SAY anything?
I think it says just enough.