Comments on: Newspaper Blackout Poems

Newspaper Blackout Poems

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:46:22 -0800

Newspaper Blackout Poems "So much thrives on facsimile that when you see the real deal, it has none of the passion and feels like a desperate pose."

By: sanko

sanko — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:50:02 -0800

Reminds me of A Humument

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:54:06 -0800

Ohh, very nice.

By: gwint

gwint — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:00:18 -0800

Also, of Erasures. (self-link)

By: aught

aught — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:00:30 -0800

If you like these, you might also enjoy artist Tom Phillips' A Humument. Some of my favorites from which are 104, 79, 298 and 314.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:01:59 -0800

Yes, it's a lot like a Humument, though with out the "illuminated" quality. Check out Tom Phillips generally.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:02:30 -0800

On lack of preview, yeah.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:02:34 -0800

Homeland Security has its fingers in everything, nowadays.

By: bobobox

bobobox — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:04:45 -0800

Great! This is fun to do with cheap novels too, I'm fond of ruining bad books, or better, warping them to my satisfaction.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:05:48 -0800

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By: interrobang

interrobang — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:08:55 -0800

Awesome idea, thanks for pointing this out, IRFH.

By: crackingdes

crackingdes — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:10:05 -0800

Wow. You just cheered up my morning. So beautiful, thanks.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:13:48 -0800

[______ is good] thanks, Like outer space descended dimly, draped on today's news, caped, just a few star spears through black, a pole star, an evening star, a morning one, a daily, in ranks of all the blankness fit to print and on the back unredacted, the real news, "it's raining", "Florence Henderson", it's raining.

By: beagle

beagle — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:15:07 -0800

Sorry, reminds me more of "poetry" created by fooling around with those refrigerator magnets. The William S. Burroughs "cut up" method, which is random rather than directed, produces better results, IMO.

By: blueshammer

blueshammer — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:22:21 -0800

I think that's quite nice. Two thumbs.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:35:44 -0800

This is great. Thanks for pointing it out, IRFH. I used to do this with thrift store books. The best was a book of poetry by Richard Thomas. Who knew John Boy could write?

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:37:19 -0800

February 16th's entry is absolutely stunning. Fantastic post - thank you.

By: Terminal Verbosity

Terminal Verbosity — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:41:31 -0800

█████████ Awesome! ███████████

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:58:46 -0800

This was really good. This one made me very happy.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:08:59 -0800

I shared it with my editors. Thanks for the diversion!

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:23:55 -0800

You can sort of do the same thing with Google cache.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:28:22 -0800

This is cool. There's also Nets, by Jen Bervin.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:01:15 -0800

Marvelous post and neat additional links. What fun. Makes me see pages of text differently. The robo-poet, cut-up generator. The icon poet, poem generator.

By: Rev. Syung Myung Me

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:06:20 -0800

Crispin Hellion Glover does similar things too, though I think his books are slightly closer to this sorta thing than A Humument... but either way, they're ALL awesome. It is also so great to hear him read his books aloud. They RULE.

By: marginaliana

marginaliana — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:28:58 -0800

Very cool.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:34:31 -0800

Update: He's just spun off the Newspaper Blackout Poems to its own site, with the following address: http://newspaperblackoutpoems.blogspot.com/ There's also now a Newspaper Blackout Challenge of the Week for would-be newspaper blackout poets.