Typewriter Rodeo: Real People, Real Stories, Custom Poems
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Description
What began as a playful idea among friends has made its way around the world, inspiring laughter, high-fives, hugs, and tears from New England to Brazil. Typewriter Rodeo celebrates poetry, spontaneity, and above all, the power of human connection. 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.Product Details
Price
$16.99
$15.80
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publish Date
April 03, 2018
Pages
208
Dimensions
7.0 X 0.5 X 7.9 inches | 1.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781449487003
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About the Author
Jodi Egerton holds a Ph.D. in English from UT Austin. With her husband Owen Egerton, Jodi co-wrote the creativity and writing craft book This Word Now. David Fruchter is a freelance curriculum writer, musician, performance artist and stay-at-home dad. He lives in Austin, Texas with two dogs, two cats, and two ladies, and frequently daydreams of gardening. Kari Anne Holt is a poet and author. Her books include the middle grade novels-in-verse, Rhyme Schemer, House Arrest, and Knockout. Sean Petrie has an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a law degree from Stanford. He is represented for his fiction writing by Erin Murphy Literary Agency.
Reviews
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)
