I just finished reading Srikanth Reddy’s astonishing erasure Voyager. I’d love to teach this book, and possibly I will this summer in a course on artistic appropriation. Because I think this is the best example of an erasure-text I’ve seen. It’s so wholly controlled, there’s no question that the work of the poem is inseparable from the poetic intent of the erasure work. Still, it’s clearly engaged with its source text, constrained without being limited. A commentary not just on its source text, but […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal • Tags: erasure, experimental, poetry, political, srikanth reddy, voyager