An erased book.
Published excerpts:
- The Primitive Undreamed (three chapters from Sin in Wilderness) published as chapbook for Dusie kollektiv/Hex Presse.
- “The Way,” “Pools,” and “Wilderness Music” (three chapters from Sin in Wilderness) published in Yew.
- “Moon Magic” (chapter from Sin in Wilderness) appears in Hold.
- “Other” (chapter from Sin in Wilderness)
- “The River” (chapter from Sin in Wilderness)
- “The Sin in Wilderness” (chapter from Sin in Wilderness)
- Aspen (erasure poem from Sin in Wilderness)
- I Found a Bear Trail (erasure poem from Sin in Wilderness)
Listen to me talk about the erasure process and read from Sin in Wilderness here.
Read a conversation I had with fellow poet Gillian Devereaux about the process of erasure in The Women in Visual Poetry: The Bechdel Test curated by Jessica Smith
with Michelle Detorie, Gillian Devereux, K.S. Ernst, K. Lorraine Graham and Sheila Murphy and an afterword by Maureen Thorson. Published by Essay Press.
erasure and collage
The Process
little helpers in magic luminescence and wicthery
as I erase the book fattens
imprint
two kinds of paint
a dog is a type of writer
laying out scans/phots
transcription station
slideshow
Source text: The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson
MICHELLE DETORIE 