… who over at his poetry site Via Negativa has been making erasure poems.
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Erasure poem by Dave Bonta derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 17 May 1660.
The king is naked and mad,
the queen wagers the whole world
on heaven—a strange country.
I hide in a wagon
with one horse.
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Lettering and image drawn from my recent work on The Soldier’s Tale.
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(wriggle) Hard to say how happy this makes me!
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Interesting technique here with poetry, lucky you have all the letters to play with, and a king too. This project just keeps on giving. I enjoyed reading Dave’s erasure poems. I have only ever done something like that with Dada poems, which is a bit like that, I think.
That’s utterly gorgeous.
Totally love it! I’ve found both these projects delightfully fun and surprising, and to see them paired like this is a real treat!
Beautiful — I love it! And conceptually, in relation to the erasure, it’s as if you’ve put Humpty Dumpty back together again, isn’t it?
A very nice re-purposing of all the letters. I’ve been enjoying Dave’s erasure poems… and this is just more and more fun!
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Waving to you both–so glad to have such fertile, playful friends!