Inspired by local writer/artist Austin Kleon, I began doing my own version of blackout poetry with the BookPeople Independent in January.
It all started with the Orphan Master, and I'm keeping the tradition going with this review of Megan Abbott's new mystery novel, Dare Me. (You can read the original article on the BookPeople blog and the full text below.)
How malleable the postwar perspective portrays the end of everything,
With disturbing outsiders and losers in the middle of a high school cheerleading alliance.
Ripe for satire, young women are as tough and tenacious as any mean street femme fatale.
That fine balance has been established between order and attention.
Dead secrets, alliances, and deceptions dare me to share a terse protege
Reminiscent of the rawness of teen isolation.
Tribalism gets more complex and goes deeper and darker.
The way the end of everything looks, the dark places can carry you
Toward a dangerous shortcut to the American dream.
Money, sex, and being accepted get in the way.
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