A Book from a Book

This is quick video from The Guardian about Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Tree of Codes, created by cutting words out of its “parent text,” The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.

My brother-in-law, Greg Betts, performed a textually similar miracle, two years ago, with his The Others Raisd in Me, published by Pedlar Press.  It is a collection of plunderverse, 150 poems created by crossing out words or letters from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 150.