Typewriter Rodeo
Real People, Real Stories, Custom Poems
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2018
Summary
Both a visual feast and a reference book in the style of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, Typewriter Rodeo collects custom, typewritten poems from “rodeos” worldwide, portraits of recipients, and their personal stories. Typewriter Rodeo began in Austin, Texas, when four poets brought their typewriters to a maker fair and began offering spontaneous, custom-composed poems to an enthusiastic crowd. The event quickly blossomed and rodeos began popping up all over the world.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781449487003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1449487009 |
| Author: | Jodi Egerton, David Fruchter, Sean Petrie, Kari Anne Holt |
| Publisher: | Andrews Mcmeel Publishing |
| Imprint: | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 179mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Typewriter Rodeo is an exciting project that implicates perfect strangers in the business of poetry by spontaneously writing a poem about them. It’s not that the composers think revision is for pantywaists, they just have to get on to the next person in line! And here in your hands is a lively, collage-form gathering of poems, photos, and back stories, which puts the work of these mad, ambush-style typists on colorful display. Who said poetry need be limited to the library and the classroom? (Billy Collins, Two-term Poet Laureate of the United States)
About The Author
Jodi Egerton
Kari Anne Roy (a.k.a. “K.A. Holt”) is the author of Haiku Mama (Quirk, 2006), Rhyme Schemer (Chronicle, 2014), House Arrest (Chronicle, 2015), and Beyond the Rails (Chronicle 2016).
David Fruchter is the producer and host of Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation, a long-running radio show in Austin devoted to spoken word and other literary arts.
Jodi Egerton holds a Ph.D. in English from UT Austin and is the founder of the editing, workshop, and mentor service Write Good Consulting.
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