Doris Cross and the poetry of cancellation

Here is an interesting commentary by Geof Huth concerning visual poetry of
cancellation: http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2004/04/doris-crossed-out.html . More
particularly, it talks about Tom Phillip's A Humament, mentions related work
by d.a. levy, but focusses primarily on some remarkable work, portions of
which are viewable from links within Huth's commentary, by Doris Cross
published in the pages of Kaldron magazine. It isn't recent work, but it is
both an interesting commentary by Huth and also the links provide far shots
and closeups of some of Cross's crossings out–I agree with Huth when he
says Cross's work "…is more poetic, and therefore more affecting, than
Phillips'."

Huth goes on to add that "She is using a dictionary, so she is guaranteed a
rich variety of words….Also, unlike Phillips, she isn't trying to tell a
story, she isn't trying to devise a novel (with characters and something
akin to a plot). She is creating a series of poems. She has freedom."

He gives a purely textual example of Cross's poetry of
cancellation–something quite beautiful–and concludes with

"Being a poet, rather than a novelist, Cross has the freedom to produce a
text as enigmatic as a Sapphic fragment. And sometimes just as powerful."

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