Why so much white-out?

1. James Yeary's The Cantos (2010?). I don't know much about this--I found it here. And a short essay by Yeary on MacLow, Pound, erasure and a sample poem here.

2. From Mary Ruefle's A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Visit Ruefle's website for so many (more beautiful) erasure books. Example.


3. Jen Bervin's The Niagara Book, 2010. More about it here.