Poetry As Tribute: Erasing David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'

We are all erased. All lives end eventually, whether at the hands of time or illness, intention or accident. What's left in their stead, however, is never a complete absence. Family, friends and colleagues weave new stories from memories and mementos -- stories that say not just who the departed were, but who they were to those who knew them, stories that hold in spite of the gaps. This appropriation plays out literally in the act of erasure poetry -- the art of marking out words and phrases fro...