Recently, I was given the writing prompt of an erasure poem. My submission didn’t make the cut, but the prompt did get me looking at some erasure poems that were interesting.
Chase Berggrun’s, R E D, is a full-length erasure of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Erasure poetry is a form of found poetry. You take an existing text and erase fairly large portions of the text to create something wholly new in meaning. He has 27 poems (the novel has 27 chapters) and the poems use Stoker’s language in its original order without changing or adding any words. He deletes sections and then puts the remaining words into a poetic shape. The result is something quite different from the original source.
Milneville 