Words + Pictures: On Blurring Genres

 Altering texts to create my own found & blackout prose & poetry began when I discovered a book in a used bookstore on the Upper West Side. It was a terribly misogynistic novel titled Harry, the Rat with Women. I wondered how it ever got published & how it was still around decades later.

So, I bought it, intending to turn it into something else.

And I did. Slowly.

Then I picked up momentum from there, sorting through more shelves, buying other outdated, politically incorrect books: The Story of a Marriage. In a Man’s Time. Tales of Indentured Servants. Beautiful Girlhood.

It was Beautiful Girlhood that sparked the idea for my book, In the Cloakroom of Proper Musings. This series of collages came about as I began cutting apart the pages of that book.