A column of an article in an old journal, “The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science” (1835), redacted into a fragment. The image in the right column is a HiRISE image of the South Pole of Mars. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
A list of hackneyed expressions redacted down to a poem about our sun. (The text is from the 1914 textbook “The Study and Practice of Writing English” by Gerhard Lomer and Margaret Ashmun.)
A page of the 1825 book “Typographia, an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of printing,” by Thomas Curson Hansard redacted into a poetic fragment.
A page of the 1839 “A Fantastical Excursion into the Planets” redacted into a poetic fragment.
A page of the 1819 “Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 5” redacted into a poem about the ongoing U.S. government shutdown (which impacts NASA).
The U.S. government shutdown which began on Oct. 1, 2013 has impacted many government agencies, including NASA. For this poem, I redacted an old text, “A Columbus of Space,” by Garrett Putman Serviss (1911).
