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Erasure Poetry

Anvil Tongue | Emily Dickinson Poems | Wuthering Heights Erasures

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Happy to be included in this release of Anvil Tongue, a website and book publisher run by Daniel Ryan. An Emily Dickinson erasure on hope, a written poem, and some visual word art based on Wuthering Heights are included. The work is in my manuscript about the suicide of a person dear to me. Some of it is erasure, some of it Art Brut. It defies categorization. See the page here and be sure to check out the whole issues. Also see more images/erasures from this series in Up the Staircase Quarterly (also published this year).

Hope, an Emily Dickinson Erasure Poem by Koss on coarse burlap background in black and white.
Hope, an Emily Dickinson Erasure Poem by Koss

Calves, a Crossword Poem

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Crossword poem made from crossword word list and graphite washes with black blacked out words
Calves, a Crossword Poem Drawing by Koss

Another crossword poem (or the crossword list). Graphite and liquid graphite on mounted crossword poem.

Asemic Art

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Finished a couple pieces and am playing around with another asemic art or writing piece. The big-nosed magpie on board is finished. I posted it earlier. I’m still playing around with drawing/writing on crossword puzzles. Used a fixative, but am struggling with (albeit intrigued by) how media behaves on the cheap newsprint/manila paper. Conjures memory of hauling around huge sketchpads as an undergrad. So consider it an in-progress shot. The hare poem is now finished (an earlier state posted in another blog post. The original poem was called “Shoulder Story” and published in Rogue Agent. I shortened it, cut it up, and used it in the piece. I like that there’s a weird positive/negative play and the large black shape could be a womb, a black flower, or a fist. The stem might be entrails . . .

Magpie Asemic Drawing/Collage on Wood
Magpie Asemic Drawing/Collage on Wood
Magpie Asemic Drawing/Collage on Wood Closeup
Magpie Asemic Drawing/Collage on Wood Closeup
Poetry Drawing/Collage with cut out words from an abbreviated poem with hare in a black flower fist.
Poetry Drawing/Collage, from “Shoulder Story” in Rogue Agent
Asemic Writing or Drawing on Crossword Puzzle

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