right now Writers/artists have adopted this form both to achieve a range of cognitive or symbolic effects and to focus on the social or political meanings of erasure. Erasure is a way to give an existing piece of writing a new set of meanings, questions, or suggestions. It lessens the trace of authorship but also draws attention to the original text. As with any allusion, interpretive questions include: What is the attitude to the original work? Does a gesture celebrate, denigrate, subvert, or efface the source completely? What is the process for selecting erasures? One can erase intuitively ...