Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm.
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My Teaser for this week is from
chasers of the light
poems from the typewriter series
by Tyler Knott Gregson
My teaser from the hard cover.
Sometimes
the only way
to catch
your breath
is to
lose it
completely.
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My Review
I won this fascinating collection of poems in a giveaway. It sits on my night stand and I pick it up and open to a random page, reading several before I go to sleep.
I was fascinated with the author’s story of how he came to write the typewriter series.
Remember those old typewriters? Not the electric ones. The ones where you pound on the keys and here that clack, clack, clacking? I loved that sound. And apparently so did the author. He found an old typewriter in an antique store and just had to try it out.
On a whim, he typed a poem on a page he tore from an old book. If you look closely at the pages in this book, you can see through to what’s on the other side. That, and using black out to reveal the words to some of the poems, make for fun reading.
The poems are revealing in themselves. I connected on many levels and some I read several times just to re-experience them.
Poetry as art. Art as poetry. A joy to read.
5 Stars
Read on if you want to know more.
Synopsis
The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.
He fell in love.
Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter Series: a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.
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