A Harper Perennial Original
Newspaper article + sharpie = Newspaper Blackout
Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need in the poems in this inventive collection
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- Harper Perennial
- Carton Qty: 56
- Selling Territory: W
- 40,000
- Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 4/13/2010
- ART/HUMOR
- pb 9780061732973 $12.99 ($13.99)
- 208 pages; 6 x 9
- Newspaper Blackout will contain original poems by Kleon in addition to the submissions of others whose poems will be solicited through Austin’s website.
- Austin Kleon’s blog at AustinKleon.com receives more than 60,000 visitors per month.
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"Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need."
- NPR's Morning Edition
"One can imagine taking up blackout poetry on their daily bus commute in place of sudoku or the crossword puzzle."
- Toronto's National Post
"Sort of like Michelangelo carving away the marble that imprisoned what he saw within."
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
".a kind of Rorschach approach to reading newspapers."
- Wall Street Journal
"[A] sense of play infuses the poems-short pieces that touch on first sex and outer space, in a voice that slips from funny to elegiac."
- Austin Chronicle
".hidden bits of Zen lite that occasionally bump up against brilliance..Kleon manages to turn the paper of record into visually stark nuggets of poetry and wit. All the Muse That's Fit to Print, you might say."
- Texas Monthly
"Highbrow/brilliant.It's better than it sounds."
- New York magazine
"Part 'writing with constrictions,' part happy accident, part found art, part design challenge...the collection...gives a well rounded and consistent view into a guy most of us would want to buy a beer."
- Radio Exile
"[The poems] resurrect the newspaper when everyone else is declaring it dead.like a cross between magnetic refrigerator poetry and enigmatic ransom notes, funny and zen-like, collages of found art."
- The New Yorker
"Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring."
- The Ephemerist