Oh my god. I dream of screenless life, and try to take two weeks for it per year, but it seems a privilege to have started a career before screens were required, and a curse that we must learn to exist peacefully with them now. We millennials are the last generation to have gotten a taste of life before blue light. But this inspires me; suddenly I miss wrist-moving action. Thank you!
Hi Mason, Maybe you came across Mary's erasure book An Incarnation of the Now when you were researching for your article, but if you didn't you can check out SeeDouble Press. We are a small press that is dedicated to text and image books and we publish Mary Ruefle.
Wow. Didn't know about Mary Ruefle. Just ordered Dunce (lucky to live next to a poetry only bookstore (https://twitter.com/index_poetry). btw, also check out Donald Knuth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth) -- very famous mathematical and computer scientist. And guess what? He does not use email also!!
I've only just discovered your newsletter, and it's such a breath (gust) of fresh air. Thank you! I've played around with whiting/blacking out text before, but usually on old tech papers or white papers. The language is so different there—it offers up a really unique voice when trying to come up with a poem.
I love that Ruefle calls her work in books ‘erasures’. I’ve only seen poems like this called blackout poems because the artist/writer fills the page with black and leaving only a few words visible. It almost feels like censorship. Ruefle, by adding white, seems to be liberating the page.
Neil Gaiman writes the first drafts of his books by hand. His second draft is typing the book into his computer.
I so relate to wanting that outfit when it doesn’t work for climate or life. What does it evoke for or resonate in us that we might duplicate in another context? It all comes back to what is being said.
Oh my god. I dream of screenless life, and try to take two weeks for it per year, but it seems a privilege to have started a career before screens were required, and a curse that we must learn to exist peacefully with them now. We millennials are the last generation to have gotten a taste of life before blue light. But this inspires me; suddenly I miss wrist-moving action. Thank you!
Loved this! In 2021, not owning a computer is the ultimate act of erasure.
Hi Mason, Maybe you came across Mary's erasure book An Incarnation of the Now when you were researching for your article, but if you didn't you can check out SeeDouble Press. We are a small press that is dedicated to text and image books and we publish Mary Ruefle.
Wow. Didn't know about Mary Ruefle. Just ordered Dunce (lucky to live next to a poetry only bookstore (https://twitter.com/index_poetry). btw, also check out Donald Knuth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth) -- very famous mathematical and computer scientist. And guess what? He does not use email also!!
I've only just discovered your newsletter, and it's such a breath (gust) of fresh air. Thank you! I've played around with whiting/blacking out text before, but usually on old tech papers or white papers. The language is so different there—it offers up a really unique voice when trying to come up with a poem.
Wow! And she looks like a real scamp, too.
One of the best things I've ever read is her essay, "Pause."
I love that Ruefle calls her work in books ‘erasures’. I’ve only seen poems like this called blackout poems because the artist/writer fills the page with black and leaving only a few words visible. It almost feels like censorship. Ruefle, by adding white, seems to be liberating the page.
Neil Gaiman writes the first drafts of his books by hand. His second draft is typing the book into his computer.
I so relate to wanting that outfit when it doesn’t work for climate or life. What does it evoke for or resonate in us that we might duplicate in another context? It all comes back to what is being said.