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 ($16.99)
- 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