95 Books In 2006, George W. Bush read 95 books. We will do better.

Speaking of erasure, and the Candahar Bar, Gregory Betts read on Feb 22 at the Candahar Bar from his recently released Pedlar Press book The Others Raisd in Me: 150 Readings of Sonnet 150.

A project of erasure and translation and rewriting, The Others Raisd in Me misreads each of the 14 lines of Shakespeare’s sonnet 150. The work examines ideas of selfhood from the 17th century into the present, flirting with a cyborgian future; Shakespeare filtered through Haraway.

As I posted on Lemon Hound, I like erasure as a project for our time. What with social media and smart phone technology, everyone has become a producer, a writer, and artist. We are overrun with text. Maybe the best poetic response right now is to delete.

-Nikki