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Down
Sarah Dowling
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Description for Down
Paperback. How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics? Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452981
SKU
V9781552452981
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About 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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