We’ve just received another response to our call for erasure poems — the remarkable “Beginnings” by Anna Badua, based on text from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Badua typed out the text and then “erased” words using Illustrator software.
HERE IS THE ORIGINAL TEXT (from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad):
HERE IS THE ERASURE POEM…
BEGINNINGS
by Anna Badua
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anna Badua‘s newly released chapbook Life Forms is available through Bank-Heavy Press. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Lummox Journal, San Pedro River Review, Pearl, Chiron Review and many others. She lives in Long Beach, California.
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