Either Way I'm Celebrating, Sommer Browning

Either Way I'm Celebrating

Sommer Browning

Publisher: Birds, LLC
PubDate: 3/1/2011
ISBN: 9780982617755
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $16.00
Quantity Available: 31
Pages: 96
 

Poetry. Comics. "'All objections to progress,' writes Hans Blumenberg, 'could come down to the fact that it hasn't yet taken us far enough.' That's philosophy—and it's funny—but no one would ever level the same complaint at pain or laughter, this fine book's subjects and two phenomena that can take human beings great distances almost immediately. Absolutely modern—but never resolutely maudlin—Sommer Browning doesn't settle for making it new; rather, she lets it bleed and gets us there on time."—Graham Foust

Author City: DENVER, CO USA

Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics, and tells jokes. She is the author of three chapbooks, most recently The Bowling (Greying Ghost, 2010) with Brandon Shimoda. Her poems and drawings have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Typo, Octopus, past simple, Free Verse, The Stranger, and other places. With Julia Cohen she curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a reading series in Denver.

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Elena Spagnolie @ NewPages
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Patrick Culliton: The Poetry Foundation staff's favorite books of 2011






“Sometimes I think Sommer Browning is a James Wright for the basic cable generation, at others the gorgeously deformed lovechild of H.D. and Groucho Marx. What I mean is I cannot categorize these poems, and that’s the highest compliment I can give any poetry.”
—Mathias Svalina

“Well / I don’t know / Sommer / Browning’s new book / EITHER WAY I’M CELEBRATING / so different from mine / made me laugh /so it’s no sin / it made me see this place anew / it moved me in my air-shield / Sommer / your heart was open as this cup.”
—Jean Valentine

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