M. NourbeSe Philip



Erasure Poetry As Outsourcing the Lexicon with Reference to Srikanth Reddy’s Voyager and M NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

Certainly one of the most radical works of erasure poetry is Zong! (Wesleyan, 2008) by M NourbeSe Philip. Where many other examples choose an ample text to move through in linear fashion, producing enough material in the process to constitute the project in its entirety, Philip instead reacts to an extreme paucity of information.

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If/Shall

(a work in progress) if either if either of the parties if any goods if the commander of a ship of war if either of the parties if either if any gun if any moor if any vessel if any …

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