EBB

by Susana Gardner, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

*this is an erasure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's, Sonnets from the Portuguese



**year two of the dusi/e-chap kollektiv.

***available for download for viewing at www.dusie.org/

Genres: Poetry

22 pages, accordian/ erasural sonnets

First published January 1, 1850

Reviews

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Susana Gardner's beautiful palm-sized foldout chapbook opens to a winning series of poems made from erasures of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's (the EBB) Sonnets from the Portuguese(the PORT). Her work makes me think about the meaning of erasure as a generative device. Is a mark of competitive respect for a canonical writer (which might explain why the most famous erasure poems have used male writers as their source)? A way of clearing space for the new, showing us what needs to go (what's "ebbed")? A technique for extracting the 'I' from the poem? Or a way of recovering what's 'essential' about the poems from the period decor around them? I'm sure I'm missing a few options in there, but you're sure to catch them yourself if you get this remarkable book.

[Dusie Press · Rating 5 out of 5]

the unadulterated texts of EBB's, Sonnets from the Portuguese adulterated...