[New-Poetry] The Poetics of Erasure

[James Cervantes]

"Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk"

Like that?

- name erased

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:31 PM,  <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> http://www.straight.com/article-173276/less-more-poetics-erasure
> Less Is More: The Poetics of Erasure
> By Robin Laurence
> At the Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby Campus, until December 12
> The long, grey slide into winter presents an ideal condition for
> contemplation. And contemplation is what Less Is More asks of its viewers.
> In a world of speed, excess, violence, and sensory bombardment, this
> exhibition offers a respite from the too-muchness of it all.
> The Simon Fraser University Gallery show, subtitled The Poetics of Erasure,
> highlights the creative strategy of taking existing texts and eliminating
> all but a few carefully chosen words in order to create a new, succinct, and
> often politically charged work. Surveying 24 local and international
> artists, poets, and prose writers, curators Ariana Kelly and Bill Jeffries
> demonstrate the ways in which found books, paintings, poems, documents,
> audiotapes, and even physical spaces may be "gleaned" for new meaning.
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