{"product_id":"john-tranter-blackout","title":"John Tranter, Blackout","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlackout\u003c\/em\u003e consists of Shakespeare’s \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e, the article “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” by Joan Didion, and a chapter from \u003cem\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\u003c\/em\u003e by Tom Wolfe, with most of the words removed, and the remaining words and phrases interleaved, though in the same order as they appear in the original texts. No other words have been added.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Blackout, Tranter continues the witty experiments with found materials he began in \u003cem\u003eDifferent Hands\u003c\/em\u003e, this time slicing Shakespeare, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe according to a method in which most of the words are removed (“blacked out”) while nothing is added and, in what remains, the original order must be preserved. This method of recomposition sounds easy but it is hard to be derivative and inventive at the same time. Tranter uses his prefabricated materials and his abundant talents with great style and the result is a poem that reads and sounds like Tranter in a pleasurably uncanny way:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewaitresses looking like milky cellophane,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etheir garments cooling in this sad nook, where once\u003cbr\u003e midnight hid; all asleep; and the trumpets\u003cbr\u003e always dropping off the note.\u003cbr\u003e Is there more moody liberty? […]”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—  Kate Lilley in the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Tranter has published more than twenty collections of verse. His collection \u003cem\u003eUrban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Queensland Press, and Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK) won the Victorian state award for poetry in 2006, the New South Wales state award for poetry in 2007, the South Australian state award for poetry in 2008, and the 2008 South Australian Premier’s Prize for the best book overall (fiction, non-fiction, poetry and others for the years 2006 and 2007). His latest book is \u003cem\u003eStarlight: 150 Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (UQP, 2010). He is the founding editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket (jacketmagazine.com), the founder of the APRIL project (april.edu.au) and he has a homepage at johntranter.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2000. 24pp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":240973047,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/john_tranter___blackout.jpg?v=1347949063","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ko\/products\/john-tranter-blackout","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}