complete list
A full list of Cuckoo Grey pieces, with the most recent listed first; titles that are available upon request are so noted. All titles are FREE; just send word of what you'd like and your snail-mail address to cuckoogrey [at] gmail [dot] com.
Tell Me (2024)
- a remix of a page from Virginia Woolf's Orlando, using a double-square origami fold
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Refraction / Impossible Prism (2024)
- an experiment with the interaction of line and fold
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Halfway Through (2024)
- an erasure of a page from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Angels of a Page (2024)
- erasures from "Abaddon" through "Abandoned" in the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Winter (2024)
- a small booklet with a secret (disclosure? revelation?) at its center
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Comicule (2023)
- a miniature abstract comic
Indexes, All (2023)
- a wordless pamphlet made with just the letter X
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Not seeing, still we know (2023)
- a wordless accordion pamphlet taking its title from a line by Emily Dickinson
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The Cave (2023)
- a booklet enacting an erasure from a passage in William Morris' translation of Homer's Odyssey
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If (2023)
- a booklet containing an erasure of a passage from "The Brick Moon" by Edward Everett Hale
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Mystery (2023)
- a triptych, each segment of which remixes words cut from a leaf of a work by a different author (Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Frank Thilly)
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But Just Now (2023)
- the smallest pamphlet I've made, using words remixed from the fragments of Sappho
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Rhymes (2023)
- blocks combining : and { and arranged to echo inversely
My Father (2022)
- an erasure and remix from The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Because Bees Are Few (2022)
- a booklet of lines
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Cascades (2022)
- an accordion with falling typography
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Like a Flower (2022)
- an erasure of a passage from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Walks with Adam (2022)
- erasures of Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain
[][][][][][] (2022)
- blocks of brackets in varying greys
With/Without (2021)
- erasures of passages from Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang's translation of Homer's Odyssey
Ceres (2021)
- a wordless, minimalist arrangement of lines
A Book of Black Sky (2021)
- an erasure of "The Argument to the Frontispiece" from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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[She discovered] (2021)
- an erasure of a passage from The Faery Queen and Her Nights by Alfred John Church
Witness Thine (2021)
- a remix of words from "Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves," by Robert Burns, in honor of Burns Night
[I am yet] (2021)
- a remix of words from a page of Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang's translation of Homer's Odyssey
Experiment in O (2021)
- blocks of o's, with arrangment and omissions determined by a random number generator
[The blood of night] (2020)
- an erasure of a passage in Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang's translation of Homer's Odyssey; in celebration of the winter solstice
As a signal magnification of the general miracle (2020)
- a selection of similes from Moby Dick by Herman Melville; a collaboration with David Koehn
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[And tell me also if] (2020)
- a remix of phrases from William Cullen Bryant's translation of Homer's Odyssey
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[Streams of] (2020)
Stoa (2020)
- the pamphlet as architectural folly, a desktop colonnade
Paper of Lace (2020)
- a collection of typographically created lace, introduced by a quotation from Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders
Little Songs (2020)
- 10 sonnets made with only the underline key, gathered in an accordion format
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[The grove] (2020)
- an erasure of a passage from book 5 of Homer's Odyssey
Rue Anemone (2020)
- a modest leaflet with some concrete presentation of words
Posy (2020)
- a leaflet of typographical flowers
And Per Se And (2020)
- blocks created with letters and the ampersand
Sampler (2020)
- a pamphlet of patterns created with repetitions of the keystrokes / \ :
Choir of the Sun (2019)
- a concrete formatting of an erasure of "The Holly and the Ivy"
Gothic: A Room with Three Windows (2019)
- a concrete formatting of nouns from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Like Sheaves (2019)
- a remix of words from "The Sheaves" by E. A. Robinson
[I do not know] (2019)
- a Homeric cento using phrases from Richmond Lattimore's translation of The Odyssey
------------ (2019)
- a wordless artist-pamphlet made with spaces and the - key
Of the May (2019)
- a shape-poem using phrases from "The Maypole of Merry Mount" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
After (2018)
- an erasure of A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore
Morning & Evening (2018)
- an erasure of the opening lines of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Fields (2018)
- concrete poetry using text as texture
Hers (2018)
- a compressed erasure collection of phrases created from the words and letters in "The Seven Ravens" by the Brothers Grimm
Materials : Me (2018)
- an alphabetic inventory of Chapter 11 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in celebration of the bicentennial of the novel's publication
At Midnight in the Month of June (2018)
- a cento using lines from poems by American poets
...Snow (2018)
- a cento using lines from poems by American poets
Five Portraits (2018)
- a Homeric cento using lines from George Chapman's 17th c. translation of Homer's Odyssey
Blocks (2017/2018)
- a concrete poetry experiment inspired by alphabet blocks and quilt blocks
Two (2017)
- a mini-collection of two modern haiku
Sisters: Three Palimpsests (2017)
- concrete poetry palimpsests using the works of the Brontë sisters
Consuming / Undone (2017)
- two erasures of the same passage from Homer's Odyssey
Thither we went. (2017)
- an erasure of one of Dorothy Wordsworth's journal entries
Sprung Tune (2017)
- three erasures of a poem by Robert Burns, in honor of Burns Night
An Inventory of A Vision (2017)
- an alphabetic inventory of "A Vision" by Robert Burns, in honor of Burns Night
Then Dawn / My Heart (2016)
- two erasures of Homer's Odyssey, in celebration of the winter solstice
Metamorphosis (2016)
- anagrams of "metamorphosis"
Flake / Sound (2015 & 2016)
- a selection of line-ending words from poems by Emily Dickinson
Falling Down, Falling Through (2015)
- a selection of phrases starting with -ing words drawn from the first chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the novel's publication
Toward Winter : Two Poems (2014)
- a poem by Kathleen Brewin Lewis and a poem by Donna Vorreyer
Cornfields, USA (2014)
- 3 haibun by Sandy Longhorn
This is Not my Body, This Body that Refuses (2014)
- a poem by Sandy Longhorn
Alphabetic Austen (original printing in 2013, but reformatted and produced as a Cuckoo Grey pamphlet in 2015)
- an alphabetic inventory of the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, originally designed in celebration of the bicentennial of the novel's publication
[Streams of] (2020)
- an erasure of a passage from book 6 of Homer's Odyssey
Stoa (2020)
- the pamphlet as architectural folly, a desktop colonnade
Paper of Lace (2020)
- a collection of typographically created lace, introduced by a quotation from Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders
Little Songs (2020)
- 10 sonnets made with only the underline key, gathered in an accordion format
* * available * *
[The grove] (2020)
- an erasure of a passage from book 5 of Homer's Odyssey
Rue Anemone (2020)
- a modest leaflet with some concrete presentation of words
Posy (2020)
- a leaflet of typographical flowers
And Per Se And (2020)
- blocks created with letters and the ampersand
Sampler (2020)
- a pamphlet of patterns created with repetitions of the keystrokes / \ :
Choir of the Sun (2019)
- a concrete formatting of an erasure of "The Holly and the Ivy"
Gothic: A Room with Three Windows (2019)
- a concrete formatting of nouns from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Like Sheaves (2019)
- a remix of words from "The Sheaves" by E. A. Robinson
[I do not know] (2019)
- a Homeric cento using phrases from Richmond Lattimore's translation of The Odyssey
------------ (2019)
- a wordless artist-pamphlet made with spaces and the - key
Of the May (2019)
- a shape-poem using phrases from "The Maypole of Merry Mount" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
After (2018)
- an erasure of A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore
Morning & Evening (2018)
- an erasure of the opening lines of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Fields (2018)
- concrete poetry using text as texture
Hers (2018)
- a compressed erasure collection of phrases created from the words and letters in "The Seven Ravens" by the Brothers Grimm
Materials : Me (2018)
- an alphabetic inventory of Chapter 11 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in celebration of the bicentennial of the novel's publication
At Midnight in the Month of June (2018)
- a cento using lines from poems by American poets
...Snow (2018)
- a cento using lines from poems by American poets
Five Portraits (2018)
- a Homeric cento using lines from George Chapman's 17th c. translation of Homer's Odyssey
Blocks (2017/2018)
- a concrete poetry experiment inspired by alphabet blocks and quilt blocks
Two (2017)
- a mini-collection of two modern haiku
Sisters: Three Palimpsests (2017)
- concrete poetry palimpsests using the works of the Brontë sisters
Consuming / Undone (2017)
- two erasures of the same passage from Homer's Odyssey
Thither we went. (2017)
- an erasure of one of Dorothy Wordsworth's journal entries
Sprung Tune (2017)
- three erasures of a poem by Robert Burns, in honor of Burns Night
An Inventory of A Vision (2017)
- an alphabetic inventory of "A Vision" by Robert Burns, in honor of Burns Night
Then Dawn / My Heart (2016)
- two erasures of Homer's Odyssey, in celebration of the winter solstice
Metamorphosis (2016)
- anagrams of "metamorphosis"
Flake / Sound (2015 & 2016)
- a selection of line-ending words from poems by Emily Dickinson
Falling Down, Falling Through (2015)
- a selection of phrases starting with -ing words drawn from the first chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the novel's publication
Toward Winter : Two Poems (2014)
- a poem by Kathleen Brewin Lewis and a poem by Donna Vorreyer
Cornfields, USA (2014)
- 3 haibun by Sandy Longhorn
This is Not my Body, This Body that Refuses (2014)
- a poem by Sandy Longhorn
Alphabetic Austen (original printing in 2013, but reformatted and produced as a Cuckoo Grey pamphlet in 2015)
- an alphabetic inventory of the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, originally designed in celebration of the bicentennial of the novel's publication