CAVIARDAGE etc (in English)

CAVIARDAGE®

We can't talk about CAVIARDAGE® because it's copyrighted...

...so we'll speak about BLACKOUT POETRY, REDACTED POETRY, ERASURE POETRY and FOUND POETRY

Visually stunning and poetically striking images of poems derived from existing text flood Instagram and Pinterest every day with the hashtags #BlackoutPoetry, #RedactedPoetry, #FoundPoetry, and #ErasurePoetry. They seem to be used interchangeably. However, each of these words is not really a synonym for the other. Let’s break it down…

First Up, Blackout Poetry and Redacted Poetry. This one’s easy, Blackout Poetry and Redacted Poetry is the same type of poetry. The name used is typically based on the creator’s preference.

The creator (writer, poet, artist), takes a piece of text (e.g. page from a book, magazine, or newspaper), and removes text; hence the name “redacted” or “blackout”. The end result, when read in sequence, is a poem consisting only of the surviving words from the original text. Redacted Poetry is rooted in Found Poetry.

Like Blackout or Redacted Poetry, Erasure Poetry is also a form of found poetry.

Erasure poetry is created by erasing words from existing text and framing the result on the page as a poem. The final presentment is where erasure differs from redacted poetry.

Erasure poetry typically features the remaining text arranged in lines or stanzas. Whereas redacted poetry is deliberately created by not altering the placement, position, or sequence of words.

Found Poetry takes existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.

A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside texts: the words of the poem remain as they were found, with few additions or omissions. Decisions of form, such as where to break a line, are left to the poet.

Definitions - ERASURE

A form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas.

Definitions - FOUND POETRY

A type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry (essentially a literary collage). By making changes in spacing, lines, and lines, adding or deleting text, the final found poetry work bears an entirely new meaning; not related to nor plagiarizing the original text.

Definitions - BLACKOUT POETRY or REDACTED POETRY

It stems from found poetry and is characterized by the use of a marker (usually black marker) to existing text (e.g. newspaper, magazine, book, etc.) and redacts words until a blackout or redacted poem is formed.

What's CAVIARDAGE® ?

Caviardage is a creative writing method that can be used both personally and as a work tool by different professionals.

The method was created by Tina Festa and features various poetic creative writing techniques that help to write poetry ...

...not starting from a white page but from texts already written: pages torn from old books, newspaper articles and magazines, but also texts in digital format.

What's the origin of the word CAVIARDAGE?

Caviardage comes from French CAVIAR (caviar) or CAVIARDER (delete). We might improperly translate with blacken.

Indeed, the action of "caviardage" was what was done in the past to suppress in some writings passages considered immoral by censorship.

In our case, the phrases or words that we do not need will be 'blackened' to show what remains. So this technique consists in the elimination of words or phrases to obtain a “poetic” composition.

To make this technique in the most (and simple!) traditional way we will need a text (pages torn from books, newspaper articles and magazines, but also texts in digital format) and a black pencil.

Let's start reading the page and we will see that there are words that draw our attention. We'll try to make a small compositions with them.

Thanks to Lella La Grasta

It is possible to leave the work in black or make the changes you want. Indeed, the basic technique is contaminated with various expressive artistic techniques (such as collage, painting, watercolor, etc.) to create visual poems made by words, signs and colours.

There is no need for rhyme. With the black pencil we search for these words and we blacken all the others.

Sometimes you find words or small phrases that are not plac ed one after another on the page. In that case, you could create a “route” with a line so that you can read what you have highlighted as you want.

(Source: https:/ / tinafesta.wordpress.com/ 2011/ 01/ 27 / il-caviardage-cercare-la-poesia-nascosta/

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