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FARMINGTON — Margaret Yocom will read from her new book of erasure poetry, “All Kinds of Fur,” in Farmington and Rangeley in the coming months.
The book reimagines the Grimm fairy tale version of “Cinderella.”
She will be at DDG Booksellers in Farmington at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28. The store is at 193 Broadway.
She will read in Rangeley at 6 p.m. Aug. 5, Ecopelagicon, 7 Pond St.
In her newly released book, Yocom, of Farmington and Rangeley asks, “What would the heroine of this controversial fairy tale say if she could tell her own story?”
So begins “All Kinds of Fur: Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale from the Brothers Grimm,” published by Deerbrook Editions of Cumberland.
In the poems, Yocom offers a new vision of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s little-known version of “Cinderella,” which has rarely appeared in fairy tale collections. It oens with a widowed father who demands to marry his daughter. Wearing a mantle of rough furs, the heroine flees from the dangers at home into the forest, where she meets a neighboring king’s hunters who take her to the castle kitchen. She toils there for years, until she hears the music of that first ball.
Using the contemporary poetic practice of erasure, Yocom “erases” some of the Grimms’ words by changing their font color to gray. The remaining words in black form the new poems that reveal the young woman’s own story of how she journeyed to a new, full life. The book includes an Afterword where Yocom discusses the tale, her translation of it, and her erasure writing process.
For more information, visit deerbrookeditions.com/kin-s-fur and margaretyocom.com
