If you write out "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" and erase some of
the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y
kin - the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my
family. It might also be said to be the manuscript of my kind. The
practice of erasure was most famously accomplished (and perhaps
invented) by the British artist Tom Phillips in his book A Humument
(an erasure of a Victorian novel titled A Human Document) and
later, by the American poet Ronald Johnson, who erased Milton's
Paradise Lost into a book called Radi os. In Phillips's books-he
did more than one version of A Humument-the artist created
paintings over each page of the novel, reserving only certain words
that told a different story than did the original work. (A new
character, called "Toge," emerged from the word "together," for
example.) Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish
to use as if whiting them out-the remaining words stood in the same
relationship to each other as they did in the original poem. (Janet
Holmes)
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