2 pieces by Shloka Shankar

Shloka Shankar created “A Blackout Diptych from Dracula” from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel and “Praise” from W. B. Yeats’ 1919 poem “Her Praise.” Please click here to read “A Blackout Diptych from Dracula” and here to read “Praise.”

About the pieces and the process of composing them, Shloka Shankar writes:

I discovered William Burroughs’ fold-in technique several years ago but never got around to experimenting with it. Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I created a blackout diptych with this technique. In my second piece, sourced from “Her Praise” by W. B. Yeats, I was interested in seeing how I could incorporate the title of a poem and make it a part of my erasure.

In containing 12 words, “Praise” reflects our invitation to poets, on the occasion of our twelfth volume, to incorporate 12 in some way in their composition process.

Also by Shloka Shankar at Heron Tree: The Desert of My Love, A Trick of Thought, and The Boundary of Structure.