The MS of My Kin

by Janet Holmes

If you write out "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y kin - the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my family. It might also be said to be the manuscript of my kind. The practice of erasure was most famously accomplished (and perhaps invented) by the British artist Tom Phillips in his book A Humument (an erasure of a Victorian novel titled A Human Document)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848610351
• ISBN13: 9781848610354
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"