ABOUT TEXT-ALTERING

Altered Odysseys showcases ways in which the words or physical pages of from ancient Greek and Roman epics can be re-worked to create new pieces. The focus is on the re-use or re-purposing of the material components of the text rather than on poems or stories re-telling or prompted by the original poems.

Here are some approaches to text alteration that inspired the project:

Nets by Jen Bervin, treating Shakespeare's sonnets (link here)

A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle:  two pages at the Poetry Foundation (link here) and some other page views at the publisher, Wave Books (link here)

Austin Kleon's newspaper blackout poems (link here)

A Humument by Tom Phillips (link here)

Erasing Infinite by Jenni B. Baker (link here)

Radi Os by Ronald Johnson (no link available)