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Newspaper Blackout Austin Kleon

Newspaper Blackout By Austin Kleon

Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon


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Summary

A collection of poems that provide readers with a sense of satisfaction and much-needed comic relief during the tough times.

Newspaper Blackout Summary

Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon is a cartoonist and poet from Austin, Texas, who takes a page from an existing newspaper and blacks out words until he finds a new hidden meaning in the text. Hilarious and profound, silly and contemplative, the poems in this collection will provide readers with a sense of satisfaction and much-needed comic relief during these tough times.

Newspaper Blackout Reviews

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

About Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of three illustrated books: Newspaper Blackout, Steal Like An Artist, and Show Your Work! His latest release is The Steal Like An Artist Journal: A Notebook For Creative Kleptomaniacs. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and featured on NPR's Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. New York Magazine called his work "brilliant," The Atlantic called him "positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet," and The New Yorker said his poems "resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead." He speaks about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He grew up in the cornfields of Ohio, but now he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons. Visit him online at www.austinkleon.com

Additional information

GOR007003563
9780061732973
0061732974
Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
2010-05-01
208
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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