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About the book
Poet and artist Erin Dorney writes, fittingly, from the Northeast. A seasoned zinester and published author known for seeking poetry in new forms all around her, Dorney has now created erasure poetry after Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. A hopeful homage, a sometimes parody, and a poignant examination at word craft, Grating, Darling, Full of Dirt goes deep under the nails.
The author of I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems After Shia LeBeouf (Mason Jar Press, 2018) is also the author of Common Meter favorite zines Accept/Reject and & Other Poems.
- Published: November 01, 2023
- Pages: 28
- Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″
- ISBN: 979-8-9882494-6-7
The poems in Erin Dorney’s Grating, Darling, Full of Dirt are as lovely as they are unsettling. Reading them, you feel the source text lurking just out of sight. The beauty and the strangeness, though, is all Dorney. No one writes erasure like her.
– Meghan Phillips, author of Abstinence Only
About Erin Dorney
Erin Dorney is a conceptual poet and artist based in upstate New York. She is the author of Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering (forthcoming from Autofocus Books in March 2025), The Usual Arteries (Illuminated Press), Grating, Darling, Full of Dirt (Common Meter Press), I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems After Shia LaBeouf (Mason Jar Press), and many zines and artist’s books.
Erin’s writing has been published in Autofocus, Tolka, HAD, and other literary journals. Her literary artwork and installations have been featured at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Hennepin Theatre Trust, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Susquehanna Art Museum. She is the co-founder of Fear No Lit, a NYSCA Support for Artists grantee, and participated in the CRNY Artist Employment Program from 2022-2024.