Books of Erasure Now Available
Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book,
Ruefle's ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What
remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its
former self, yet completely new.
In Nets, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare
to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising
new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual
ground of writing.
First published in 1977, Ronald Johnson's Radi os revises the first
four books of Paradise Lost by excising words, discovering a modern and
visionary poem within the seventeenth-century text.
A HUMUMENT is a treated book by British artist Tom Phillips based on
the Victorian novel 'A Human Document' by W.H. Mallock.