We are pleased to post the third submission in our call for erasure poems, created with software at erasures.wavepoetry.com. Clint Margrave turned to Herman Mellville‘s classic novel — and Margrave’s favorite — Moby Dick (1851) for source material. (Find the original text here.) The title of the poem (“Loomings”) is also the title of the first chapter of Moby Dick.
LOOMINGS
Erasure poem by Clint Margrave
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Clint Margrave lives in Long Beach, California. His first full-length collection of poems, The Early Death of Men, is newly released from NYQ Books. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Rattle, Ambit (UK), 3AM (UK), Pearl, Serving House Journal, Word Riot, and Nerve Cowboy, among others. His poetry and prose are featured in the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology (November 2012), the Silver Birch Press Green Anthology (March 2013), and the Silver Birch Press Summer Anthology (June 2013).
Download Moby Dick for free at gutenberg.org.
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Fascinating!
Thanks for your comment, Fred. I understand that MOBY DICK is your favorite novel, which you have read many, many times. We would be honored if you would send us a MOBY DICK erasure poem. After you create the poem at the website listed in the post (http://www.erasures.wavepoetry.com/), do a screen grab of your creation and email to us. There are some instructions about screen grabs (also called screen shots) at this link: http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/general/ht/winscreenshot.htm