Down - Paperback
by Sarah Dowling (Author)
How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics?
DOWN takes junk language - with cameos by Frank O'Hara, Frank Ocean, Aaliyah and the Temptations - and distresses it, building sonically dense poems that are caught between the poignancy and flatness of their source texts. Disorientation and defamiliarization yank fresh feeling from banal sentiments in this playful collection. 'I've believed in Dowling's poems for a long time with you. Or maybe you're just now catching up to how the genius is working her machine on our minds? Gravity of letter in the word measured and dispensed with inimitable grace. The words are familiar, yes, but we get them again from this magnificent poet who is not going to let us just trample the smallest of them. I have tremendous respect for any poet who strives to be even half as great as Sarah Dowling.'Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture, winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and Birds & Bees, a chapbook published by the Troll Thread collective. Her poetry was included in the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at Jacket2.
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