Erasure is a form of found poetry or found art created
by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and
framing the result on the page as a poem. The results can be
allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas. Doris
Cross appears to have been among
the earliest to utilize this technique, beginning in 1965 with her
"Dictionary Columns" book art. d.a. levy also
worked in this mode at about the same time.
Jonathan Safran
Foer did a book-length erasure
of The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz which
he entitled Tree of Codes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_(artform)
See also Erasure and Blackout
Poems: Poetic Forms by Robert Lee Brewer
at http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/erasure-and-blackout-poems-poetic-forms,
Why erasure poetry deserves to be studied by
Bessie Liu at http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2017/04/20/why-erasure-poetry-deserves-to-be-studied/,
and Erasures in Literature at https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/04/20/erasure-literature See also List of 50 Poetic Forms for Poets by
What do the words wreak, wreck, wrote
and wrought have in common? Answer is forthcoming.
Quotes of John Dewey
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” “The most important attitude that can be formed
is that of desire to go on learning.” “Education is a social process;
education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life
itself.” “Art is the most effective mode of communications that
exists.” “Failure is instructive.
The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as
from his successes.” “Education is not preparation for life; education is
life itself.” See 112 quotes at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/42738.John_Dewey Educator John Dewey (1859–1952) originated
the experimentalism philosophy. A
proponent of social change and education reform, he founded The New School for
Social Research. https://www.biography.com/people/john-dewey-9273497
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born on December 10, 1851, to a poor family who
lived in a small town in upper New York state.
Keenly interested in simplified spelling, he shortened his first name to
Melvil as a young adult, dropped his middle names and, for a short time, even
spelled his last name as Dui. Dewey
invented the Dewey Decimal Classification® (DDC)
system when he was 21 and working as a student assistant in the library of
Amherst College. His work created a
revolution in library science and set in motion a new era of
librarianship. Melvil Dewey well
deserves the title of "Father of Modern Librarianship." Dewey changed librarianship from a vocation
to a modern profession. He helped
establish the American Library Association (ALA) in 1876; he was its secretary
from 1876 to 1890 and its president for the 1890/1891 and 1892/1893 terms. He also co-founded and edited Library Journal.
In addition, Dewey promoted library standards and formed a company to
sell library supplies, which eventually became the Library Bureau company of
today. A pioneer in library education,
Dewey became the librarian of Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New
York City in 1883 and founded the world's first library school there in
1887. In 1889, he became director of the
New York State Library in Albany, a position he held until 1906. https://www.oclc.org/en/dewey/resources/biography.html
Ron Chernow,
the historian who helped inspire the musical "Hamilton," has a biography of Ulysses S.
Grant coming out in October 2017.
Chernow's previous book, "Washington: A Life," won the Pulitzer Prize in
2011. His 2004 work on Alexander
Hamilton was the basis for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning Broadway
smash, for which Chernow served as historical consultant. Chernow's new book will likely be the most
high-profile effort yet to change the reputation of the country's 18th
president. As Penguin noted in its press
release, Grant has been "caricatured as a chronic loser and inept
businessman," a drunk whose Civil War heroism was overshadowed by his
legacy as a "credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to
symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age." Grant's competence is even challenged on the
White House web site, www.whitehouse.gov. His biographical essay, which has been on the
site for years, contends that "When he was elected, the American people
hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor nor
reform." But writers ranging from
Ta-Nehisi Coates to the historian Jean Edward Smith have argued that Grant is
an underrated and even heroic president.
Hillel Italie http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-hamilton-author-ron-chernow-has-grant-bio-coming-20170208-story.html See also https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311248/grant-by-ron-chernow/9781594204876/
Most Americans in the 1730s had
limited access to books. Books, in early America, were
rare and expensive. There were no public
libraries. Only the very wealthy and the
clergy had access to large numbers of books. Even men of moderate means could not readily
afford books. Enter Benjamin Franklin. On July
1, 1731, Franklin and a group of members from the Junto, a philosophical
association, drew up "Articles of Agreement" to form a library. The Junto was interested in a wide range of
ideas, from economics to solving social woes to politics to science. But they could not turn to books to increase
their knowledge or settle disputes, as between them they owned few tomes. But they recognized that via the Junto's
combined purchasing power, books could be made available to all members. So it was that 50 subscribers invested 40
shillings each to start a library. Members
also promised to invest 10 shillings more every year to buy additional books
and to help maintain the library. They
chose as their motto a Latin phrase which roughly translates as "To
support the common good is divine." In 1732, the
Company's first book order was sent to London. James Logan, secretary to William Penn,
assisted in picking the books. He was
considered "the best Judge of Books in these Parts." In addition to having the largest personal
library in Pennsylvania, the learned Logan knew Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Benjamin Franklin and others donated a
number of works including A Collection of Several Pieces by
John Locke and Plutarch's Morals. Franklin also donated his copy of Merchants
Mappe of Commerce to the company. The books were kept in the librarian's
lodgings. The
first librarian was named Louis Timothee. But he soon left the post to become a printer
in Charleston, one of the many franchise partners Franklin had in the printing
business. He was succeeded briefly by
Franklin himself who was in turn was succeeded by a shoemaker named William
Parsons. In 1746, Parsons gave way to
Robert Greenway. Benjamin
Franklin printed the oldest surviving catalogue of the Library Company's
holdings which dates to 1741. There were
books on history, geography, poetry, exploration, and science. Now, only about
10% of the books were devoted to theology—this in stark contrast to college
libraries at the time. And where many
university libraries or private book owners read books in Latin, the majority
of the Library Company's Books were in English. The library was open Saturday afternoons from
4-8. Members could borrow books freely;
non-members could also borrow books—if they put up a surety, something of value
that could be sold if the book was not returned. Philadelphia spawned new libraries including
the Union Library founded in 1746 which had been incorporated from the smaller
Association and Amicable Libraries. In
1769, the Union merged with the Library Company. In addition to books, the Company also built
up an impressive collection of curiosities and antiques which included: Coins, fossils, geological specimens, flora
and fauna, as well as scientific instruments. In 1739, John Penn sent an air pump to the
Company and a cabinet was commissioned to hold the pump. Soon the librarian's lodgings were
insufficient to hold the Company's collection. In 1739, the group moved into the newly
finished rooms on the second floor of the west wing of the State House, the
building today known as Independence Hall.
By 1770, after the merger with the Union Library, the Library Company's
catalogue revealed 2,0333 entries. The
books were numbered by size—a practice which continues to this day. By 1772, the Library had run out of space, and
again started casting about for a new headquarters. They petitioned the Pennsylvania Assembly for
permission to build on the State-House Square, but they were turned down. Fortunately, by late 1773 the Carpenters'
Company was putting the finishing touches on its headquarters on Chestnut
Street and an arrangement was worked out to rent the second-floor space of
Carpenters' Hall from the builder's guild. In 1787, the Library Company offered delegates
to the Constitutional Convention use of the library. Thus, Philadelphia's Library Company was also
the first Library of Congress too. In
1789, needing more space and desirous of a building of their own, the Library
Company bought a parcel of land near the corner of Philadelphia's Fifth and
Chestnut Streets. Today the Library
Company is located at 1314 Locust Street in Philadelphia. http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/library.htm
National Hispanic
Heritage Month is September 15 to
October 15. Hispanic Heritage Month, whose roots go back to 1968, begins each
year on September 15, the anniversary of independence of five Latin American
countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mexico,
Chile and Belize also celebrate their independence days during this period and
Columbus Day (Día de la Raza) is October 12.
The term Hispanic or Latino, refers to Puerto Rican, South or Central
American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. Today, 55 million people or 17% of the
American population are of Hispanic or Latino origin. https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.org/s://w https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.o/ww.hispanicheritagemonth.org
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1778
October 2, 2017 On this date in 1535, Jacques
Cartier discovered the area where Montreal is
now located. On this date in 1959, the anthology
series The Twilight Zone premiered
on CBS television. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2
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