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Well, I've just discovered Mary Austin, and that's hands-down the best thing that's happened thus far in this erasure experiment. How can I have not heard of this person? The area she wrote about is close to the Mohave Desert, where I've lived since 1988.
My opinion on erasures done from pages of prose ripped out of novels? I don't see as there's any real harm done, but I'd prefer to stick to poems, and masterful ones at that. And, if you're going to tackle prose from a published author, maybe take on the whole thing, like Yedda Morrison did? Or at least a big chunk of it. If I were to take on Melville's
Moby-Dick, looking for poems, or one long poem, I'd be busy for years, maybe decades. Hell, the whole damn thing is a beautiful poem. Far more beautiful than a good deal of his poetry. And let's not even get into
Mardi, that sadly neglected wonderwork.
These are just my immediate thoughts and emotions. I'm far more interested in Mary's work now than anything we the living are busy with at present. Have you seen her face? What a face! Imposing, strong, defiant. If I met up with her in a saloon out here I sure wouldn't look at her funny.