Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
After working my tail off to memorize the shortest possible poem to fit my freshman English class’s recitation assignment requirements, my teacher told us that the legendary bards of yore used to travel from town to town, declaiming their long epics to rapt audiences. Someone in my class wondered aloud if poems were just the songs of the olden days, and since then, I’ve often thought about how many “poems” I have, in fact, memorized. How many fragments, but also how many entire epics, entire albums I can still sing along with when I’m driving in the car.
