Backup Singers
Author | : Sommer Browning |
Publisher | : Birds |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
ISBN-10 | : 099142980X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780991429806 |
Rating | : 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Poetry. Browning follows up her sold out debut, EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING, with an even rawer and starker, and again darkly humorous navigation of friendship, marriage, and motherhood. The result is a more overtly political assessment of the absurd deficit between what we're confronted with and what we're equipped with to deal with those confrontations: "It's a girl, / and the wires she needs // open her hands / before they're fists." Browning combats this deficit with relentless anaphora and repetition, reducing seemingly impossible relationships to their most basic element a love that begets an unconditional loyalty: "I'm here I didn't run "