Status Updates From Aug 9 - Fog⁠

110 pages.

I’m beginning to feel weird about this author stealing from someone. She had her full name and address but did she ever make an effort to reach out to next of kin? She had her name but is she going to credit her? Just because it was someone’s diary and the original author may have passed, does that mean she shouldn’t be posthumously credited? It is her writing after all.

This'll be a really quick read because there are like 10 words per page. It makes me think, at what point does someone else's work "become" yours? I mean, considering the whole category of blackout/erasure poetry... I feel like this work falls under that umbrella. Where do you draw the line between source and new creative work? How do you recognize/acknowledge the words and intentions of the original author?

to be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about the premise of this book. sure, it's intriguing, but at the same time, I can't help but feel that rearranging/editing/re-stitching together the contents of someone else's diary (even if it was purchased at an estate sale) and then publishing it is, on some level, still a violation of that person's privacy and life?

It’s giving Grapes of Wrath