Jaccottet
@jaccottet.bsky.social
erasure poet & teller of tales
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Jaccottet
@jaccottet.bsky.social
· Apr 8
I'm taking a 400-page hardcover book by mystery novelist James Patterson and, with gallons of white-out, transforming it into a book of stand-alone erasure poems. Currently 130 pages into the project, which you can follow/support here: www.patreon.com/collection/6... #booksky #books #poetry #erasure
erasure #haiku duet, in collaboration w/ Claudia Cristalli:
morning around ten
----------------------------photographs sat up
the pictures of dispassion
made me close my eyes
----------------------------my memory was color
----------------------------smoothly strewn about
[Sep 2024, pg 059/406]
morning around ten
----------------------------photographs sat up
the pictures of dispassion
made me close my eyes
----------------------------my memory was color
----------------------------smoothly strewn about
[Sep 2024, pg 059/406]
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
erasure #haiku duet, in collaboration w/ Claudia Cristalli:
morning around ten
----------------------------photographs sat up
the pictures of dispassion
made me close my eyes
----------------------------my memory was color
----------------------------smoothly strewn about
[Sep 2024, pg 059/406]
morning around ten
----------------------------photographs sat up
the pictures of dispassion
made me close my eyes
----------------------------my memory was color
----------------------------smoothly strewn about
[Sep 2024, pg 059/406]
a wine-stained-page erasure #tanka:
you and you can see
we’ve been screaming out for night
i fear my daydreams
nightmares calling from my ear
we broke into a run home
[Sep 2024, pg 058/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poetry #booksky #poem #dreams
you and you can see
we’ve been screaming out for night
i fear my daydreams
nightmares calling from my ear
we broke into a run home
[Sep 2024, pg 058/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poetry #booksky #poem #dreams
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
―from ‘The End’ by Samuel Beckett
―from ‘The End’ by Samuel Beckett
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
―from ‘The End’ by Samuel Beckett
―from ‘The End’ by Samuel Beckett
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
an erasure #poem:
I'm sad
I need to explore good souls
no doubt I’ll take the nitty-gritty
the bottom other two at the so low
our own in parallel
made mistakes? big ones
[Sep 2024, pg 052/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poetry #booksky
I'm sad
I need to explore good souls
no doubt I’ll take the nitty-gritty
the bottom other two at the so low
our own in parallel
made mistakes? big ones
[Sep 2024, pg 052/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poetry #booksky
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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@aislingwalsh.bsky.social on the 30-year legacy of His Dark Materials and why Philip Pullman understands that “true evil is never about the distorted cravings of a single person.”
Why Philip Pullman’s Books Are More Important Than Ever in Speaking Truth to Power
When we first encounter Lyra Silvertongue, neé Belacqua, she is hidden in a wardrobe and listening intently to her uncle, Lord Asriel, give a presentation to Oxford scholars on his findings about D…
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@aislingwalsh.bsky.social on the 30-year legacy of His Dark Materials and why Philip Pullman understands that “true evil is never about the distorted cravings of a single person.”
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I read a lot of news stories that are some version of "a pedestrian was hit and killed; the driver was not hurt". My reaction is always "well, no shit".
We need to design our infrastructure to better protect people outside the car.
We need to design our infrastructure to better protect people outside the car.
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I read a lot of news stories that are some version of "a pedestrian was hit and killed; the driver was not hurt". My reaction is always "well, no shit".
We need to design our infrastructure to better protect people outside the car.
We need to design our infrastructure to better protect people outside the car.
“If you were to visit [the moon], you might experience conflicting feelings of deprivation and overwhelm….You would feel lonely, hot, freezing, terrified, ecstatic, superhuman, and tiny, in a matter of moments or maybe all at once.”
—from OUR MOON (2024), by Rebecca Boyle
@rboyle31.bsky.social
—from OUR MOON (2024), by Rebecca Boyle
@rboyle31.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“If you were to visit [the moon], you might experience conflicting feelings of deprivation and overwhelm….You would feel lonely, hot, freezing, terrified, ecstatic, superhuman, and tiny, in a matter of moments or maybe all at once.”
—from OUR MOON (2024), by Rebecca Boyle
@rboyle31.bsky.social
—from OUR MOON (2024), by Rebecca Boyle
@rboyle31.bsky.social
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Billions of dollars pumped into one Latin American nation, gunboats deployed off the coast of another—it all brings to mind a 1918 anglophone poem by Nicaragua’s Salomón de la Selva (1893-1959), with whom Millay, by the way, “had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.”
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Billions of dollars pumped into one Latin American nation, gunboats deployed off the coast of another—it all brings to mind a 1918 anglophone poem by Nicaragua’s Salomón de la Selva (1893-1959), with whom Millay, by the way, “had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.”
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This beautiful little poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa plays cleverly with English and Irish,how words shift in meaning and emotional resonance
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This beautiful little poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa plays cleverly with English and Irish,how words shift in meaning and emotional resonance
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
an erasure #tanka:
pictures of story
tell about the space between
heavy pack of lives
the world a writer’s method
emotional center stirred
[Sep 2024, pg 050/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel
pictures of story
tell about the space between
heavy pack of lives
the world a writer’s method
emotional center stirred
[Sep 2024, pg 050/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
an erasure #haiku:
rented for writing
selling imagination
nine-foot-high murders
[pg 049/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
rented for writing
selling imagination
nine-foot-high murders
[pg 049/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
an erasure #haiku:
rented for writing
selling imagination
nine-foot-high murders
[pg 049/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
rented for writing
selling imagination
nine-foot-high murders
[pg 049/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
an erasure #haiku:
business conquers them
victims would not be humans
pretty when broken
[pg 048/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
business conquers them
victims would not be humans
pretty when broken
[pg 048/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
an erasure #haiku:
business conquers them
victims would not be humans
pretty when broken
[pg 048/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
business conquers them
victims would not be humans
pretty when broken
[pg 048/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
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Wayang kulit is Indonesia’s traditional shadow puppet theater. The term comes from Javanese words for "performance" and "skin", referring to the leather puppets. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Wayang kulit is Indonesia’s traditional shadow puppet theater. The term comes from Javanese words for "performance" and "skin", referring to the leather puppets. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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It sounds like a horror story.
Capgras delusion is a real but rare psychiatric syndrome in which a person believes a loved one has been replaced by an identical impostor. First described in 1923, it is linked to psychosis, dementia, and brain injuries.
Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/CGqG
Capgras delusion is a real but rare psychiatric syndrome in which a person believes a loved one has been replaced by an identical impostor. First described in 1923, it is linked to psychosis, dementia, and brain injuries.
Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/CGqG
October 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It sounds like a horror story.
Capgras delusion is a real but rare psychiatric syndrome in which a person believes a loved one has been replaced by an identical impostor. First described in 1923, it is linked to psychosis, dementia, and brain injuries.
Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/CGqG
Capgras delusion is a real but rare psychiatric syndrome in which a person believes a loved one has been replaced by an identical impostor. First described in 1923, it is linked to psychosis, dementia, and brain injuries.
Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/CGqG
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Village Square (a two-page tale)
YouTube video by jaccottet
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October 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Currently being reprinted but available again by the end of next week (from @johnmurrays.bsky.social). Also available in paperback from @harvardpress.bsky.social in Notth America)!
If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
October 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Currently being reprinted but available again by the end of next week (from @johnmurrays.bsky.social). Also available in paperback from @harvardpress.bsky.social in Notth America)!
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In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
an erasure #haiku:
her portfolio
lover subsidiaries
her brand broke my heart
[pg 046/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
her portfolio
lover subsidiaries
her brand broke my heart
[pg 046/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
an erasure #haiku:
her portfolio
lover subsidiaries
her brand broke my heart
[pg 046/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
her portfolio
lover subsidiaries
her brand broke my heart
[pg 046/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]
#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson