J. M. Farkas

About The Author

J.M. Farkas is the author of Be Brave: An Unlikely Manual for Erasing Heartbreak—an erasure of Beowulf via blackout poetry. She has written for The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and Electric Literature, and her poetry appears in a wide variety of literary magazines. 

Books by J. M. Farkas

How to Be a Poet
By J. M. Farkas
The Roman poet Ovid's The Art of Love instructed women on the "art" of seduction and men in the "art" of romantic conquest. It is a "classic" sexist text on men, women, love, and sex.
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Be Brave

An Unlikely Manual for Erasing Heartbreak

By J. M. Farkas
Be Brave is the first in a series of erasures in which author JM Farkas puts a feminist, revisionist spin on classic literature. Permanent marker, meet Beowulf.
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