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Newspaper Blackout (2010)

by Austin Kleon(Favorite Author)

3.02 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061732974 (ISBN13: 9780061732973)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Very interesting way of making poems out of newspaper articles and reusing the words of others, making them mean something quite different (usually). Some of the poems I really enjoyed what came out of just a few words that happened to be in the vicinity of each other in the same newspaper. I particularly enjoyed the introduction of the book that told about preceding similar works created by blackening out words of another text and thereby making a completely new work.
review 2: I read this book based on the brilliant excerpts that kept getting posted around Tumblr.Sadly, those were the highlights. There are some gems, to be sure, but for the most part it feels forced.Quite a few of the poems have abandoned the top-down left-right style, and instead roam around... more the page like ants. These tend to be the best and also the most fun to read.I'd recommend getting the book for the three or four five star pages, but know that there are quite a few 1 star ones balancing them out. less

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