![]() ![]() The Chronicle recently spoke to Kleon by phone in advance of his book launch party at BookPeople on April 13. It seems he's always in the act of creating – even if he's not sure just what it is he's creating, or why. ![]() Now an Austin resident, Kleon is a Web designer by day he's also a talented cartoonist (check out his work at and prolific blogger. That 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 to freshman-year philosophic –but Kleon's creative spirit doesn't stop there. ![]() It didn't feel like work it felt like play." "All I knew was that it was fun to watch those words disappear behind that fat black marker line. "I didn't know what I was doing, or why," Kleon writes in the introduction to his new collection, called Newspaper Blackout (Harper Perennial). The remaining words, peeking out from a wash of black, had the look of a redacted document, but they read like a poem. A few years back, while living in Cleveland, Kleon decided to vent his frustrations with writing by picking up a copy of The New York Times and slashing and burning with a marker. ![]()
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