Protocols: An Erasure

Daniela Naomi Molnar’s Protocols: An Erasure is a book-length erasure poem that redacts the antisemitic document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Drawing light from darkness, Molnar’s work is a meticulous, questioning, sensitive, and searing act that mines meaning and depth from a document so flat, fictitious, and dangerous. Inhabiting a structure of ennumerated “Protocols,” the poem beats rhythmically across the page, punctuating the surgically intentional erasure inherent to the poet’s process. Meaning is palpable in the spaces that surround the words and lines that wind through the book’s pages. 

Photo by Meghan Kirkwood.