Chatterbox: A Book Of Erasure Poems

Chatterbox is a unique collection in that poet Lynn Marie Houston has taken texts written by Steven Pinker and has chiseled out of them, through the practice of erasure, highly experimental poems whose meanings and themes deviate from the original context of Pinker's work in order to comment on gender relations, the natural world, colonialism, creativity, and other contemporary issues. Here you will find the associative "skittery" poetry that Tony Hoagland has claimed is "imaginatively frolicsome." In Chatterbox, Houston gives free reign to her imagination, working within the constraints provided by the sequence of Pinker's words in order to offer lucid contemplations on relevant political topics. Every one of these poems could function as a writing prompt.

• | Author: Lynn Marie Houston
• | Publisher: Word Poetry
• | Publication Date: Sep 23, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 114 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1625492510
• | ISBN-13: 9781625492517