Sounds like the visiopoetic practice of "cancellation poetry",
Mill. It's been around for over fifty years, but can still be
reasonably considered an "experimental" practice since still
pretty much ignored by the poetry establishment. Tom Phillips
is considered the king of the practice. See his Humument, a complete
Victorian novel each of the pages of which used cancellation or
some similar technique on, often using color paint. Doris Cross
did similar things with a standard dictionary’s pages. d. a. levy
may have been the first to bring it to the fore in visual poetry.
--Bob
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From: Millicent Borges Accardi
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 2:20 AM
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Subject: Mary Ruefle's poetic method
Greetings,
Does anyone have an opinion or thoughts about Mary Ruefle? I saw her latest poetic project where she whited out and darkened in lines of a children's book, making it into a poetry collection and was astonished and amazed. Are there other writers/artists experimenting in this nature? A border between art and language?
Take care
mill
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