Erasure & The Burning Haibun (6 Sept 2024)
(Hosted by Muntia Tafassum Ahmed as part of the Emerging Writers Festival 2024.)
- Erasure is an attempt to conceal and reveal: a beautiful juxtaposition to play with.
- Erasure/blackout poetry is a means of collaboration or conversation between two texts: one old, one new.
- Erasure poetry doesn’t have to be just lines from newsprint crossed out, it can be an art form in itself. You can fade out the original text so you can still read it. Or keep the erased text and position it next to the original.
- You can make drawings to mask the erasures for a mixed media effect.
- When you make erasure poetry, it’s a perfect way to reveal what’s otherwise hidden, and use dense intensity for maximum impact.
- Try creating erasure poetry using your writings: write a poem and cross out key words and phrases to tell two stories in the same work.
- When creating an erasure poem, think about the impact you want it to have on the source text.
- The haibun form gained popularity in the late 17th century in Japan: it’s a prose poem which starts with autobiographical or non-fiction prose and closes with a more metaphorical haiku. The forms contrast yet remain connected.
- The burning haibun is an erasure twist on the original created by Torrin A. Greathouse: it finds the closing haiku in the original opening prose.
- The original haibun focuses on the external world, the burning on the internal.
- Lowercase source text unifies the erasure.
- A fascinating concept to play with for a burning haibun is a memory you have a different opinion of than when it originally happened.
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