My erasures revealed a parallel between these forms of exploitation, demands, fraught coexistence."Įlla is designer/artist/educator/writer currently pursuing an MFA in Graphic Design at CalArts. Perhaps it was my own selective marks on the pages, but the coexistence of environmental imagery and blurry sexual consent did not strike me as an accident. I wasn’t surprised to find fraught gender and relationship dynamics, but I was struck by moments of exploitation juxtaposed with interactions between humans and nature. The book centers around a woman who travels back in time (unclear how far) and lives out sexual fantasies with an abusive British man. I erased, redacted, concealed, and discovered, and later, joyfully recopied the remains. Black out poems were the perfect solution. Fatigued by quarantine and zoom calls, I needed a screen-free way to write. I have found many gems-issues of literary magazines, my bedside lamp, various office supplies, a couch, and a romance novel, A Dance Through Time, by Lynn Kurland.Ī Dance Through Time provided exactly what I needed to start a blackout poem project: pages with words to cross out, cut up, smear, spit on, etc. Boxes can be found on most blocks, but they are rarely filled with trash. "These poems can be traced back to a quirk of Providence, RI: the sidewalk offerings. Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features.
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