Aesop's Erasures

Aesop's Fables have been a staple of children's literature for thousands of years. Translated into languages the world over and reinterpreted countless times, these short, simple tales of talking animals, Greco-Roman gods, and everyday people are engrained into the global imagination. Aesop's Erasures is a book of erasure poetry that takes these stories and strips them down to their bare essence. Working from George Fyler Townsend's 1800s translations, these poems play with the idiosyncrasies of archaic English to create something uniquely modern.