Poetic Inspiration

Austin Kleon's collection of poems Newspaper Blackout walked into the store today, and I must say it is quite possibly one of the best quirky poetry books that we've had in a while.


The beauty of what Kleon does is he simply starts with a newspaper story and blacks out most of the words. The results are funny, insightful, and just plain cool.

From one page he got the following poem:

The Skinny Son

as

the skinny, son

what is hidden from
sight is
only gradually
laid
out
yet even as mother and father
re imagine their courtship
A feeling
Hovers around you
that
To describe "A Secret"
is
to
play
images drained of
color,

____

I would recommend picking up a copy for some inspiration! Happy Poetry Month!

Paz,

Nieves

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