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Erasure
poetry
or
blackout
poetry
is
a
form
of
found
poetry
or
found
object
art
created
by
erasing
words
from
an
existing
text
in
prose
or
verse
and
framing
the
result
on
the
page
as
a
poem
The
results
can
be
allowed
to
stand
in
situ
or
they
can
be
arranged
into
lines
and
or
stanzas
Writers
and
visual
artists
have
adopted
this
form
both
to
achieve
a
range
of
cognitive
or
symbolic
effects
and
to
focus
on
the
social
or
political
meanings
of
erasure
Erasure
is
a
way
to
give
an
existing
piece
of
writing
a
new
set
of
meanings
questions
or
suggestions
It
lessens
the
trace
of
authorship
but
also
draws
attention
to
the
original
text
Doris
Cross
appears
to
have
been
among
the
earliest
to
utilize
this
technique
beginning
in
1965
with
her
Dictionary
Columns
book
art
The
poetic
form
gained
new
political
purpose
online
in
2017
in
response
to
the
Trump
administration
The
tradition
of
concrete
poetry
and
the
works
of
visual
artists
such
as
d
a
levy
have
some
relationship
to
this
artform
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Erasure
Poetry