The Blank Page
  • Published: 21 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9781946764621
  • Imprint: Parallax
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $36.00

The Blank Page

How a Piece of Paper Connects to Everything

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Is a blank page really blank? Poet Alberto Blanco pulls back the curtain and illuminates all of the elements hidden in a single piece of paper: the tree it was made from, the rain and sun that allowed the tree to grow, and the people that created it. An enlightening read for readers young and old, it soon becomes clear that a blank page contains the whole cosmos.

Is a blank page really blank? Beloved poet Alberto Blanco pulls back the curtain and illuminates all of the elements hidden in a single piece of paper: the tree it was made from, the rain and sun that allowed the tree to grow, and the people that created it. An enlightening read for readers young and old, it soon becomes clear that a blank page contains the whole cosmos.

In The Blank Page, world-renowned Mexican poet Alberto Blanco inspires children and adults to keep looking deeper, to never take things at face value. Charming illustrations by Rob Moss Wilson portray a world that slowly comes to life in a single sheet of paper: first the tree, then the forest, then the people are discovered, revealing the whole interrelated ecosystem of our world. As Blanco says: "Where nothing happens, there is a miracle we are not seeing."
  • Published: 21 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9781946764621
  • Imprint: Parallax
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for The Blank Page

"[Blanco's poems] have revealed with precision and delicacy an original imaginative landscape, in language and imagery that are at once intimate, spacious, and rooted in the rich ground of Mexican poetry." --W.S. Merwin

"An increasingly significant voice in Mexican and Latin American poetry." --Jerome Rothenburg