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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Erasing Frankenstein: Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project

Erasing Frankenstein: Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project

Effinger, Elizabeth

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Series: Life Writing

Writing InstructionGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1771126183
ISBN13: 9781771126182
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Who gets to write poetry? Whose voices are made public? Whose voices are heeded?

Erasing Frankenstein showcases a creative exchange between federally incarcerated women and members of the prison education think tank Walls to Bridges Collective at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, and graduate and undergraduate students from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Working collaboratively by long-distance mail, the artists and contributors made the first-ever poetic adaptation of Frankenstein, turning it into a book-length erasure poem, I or Us. An example of found art, an erasure poem is created by erasing or blacking out words in an existing text; what is left is the poem. The title reflects the nature of the project: participants have worked as I's, each creating their own erased pages, but together worked as an us to create a collaged monster of a book.

Erasing Frankenstein presents the original erasure poem I or Us alongside reflections from participants on the experience.

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