{"product_id":"down-paperback-7","title":"Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Dowling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can we carve private spaces from discarded publics? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDOWN\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003e- CAConrad \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'After all of the previous avant-garde's perpetual rediscoveries of Gertrude Stein's formal innovations, Dowling reminds us that her best poetry was, above all, sexy. Where Dowling surpasses is in her recognition of the phatic, the emphatic, the obsessive understanding of the cultural syntax of infatuation. Everything in \u003ci\u003eDOWN\u003c\/i\u003e is palpably cloudy in its thick description: I am starstruck.'\u003cbr\u003e- Craig Dworkin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Dowling\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSecurity Posture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBirds \u0026amp; Bees\u003c\/i\u003e. Sarah's poetry was included in the anthology \u003ci\u003eI'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at \u003ci\u003eJacket2\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Dowling is the author of \u003ci\u003eSecurity Posture\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and \u003ci\u003eBirds \u0026amp; Bees\u003c\/i\u003e, a chapbook published by the Troll Thread collective. Her poetry was included in the anthology \u003ci\u003eI'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at \u003ci\u003eJacket2.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351186718969,"sku":"9781552452981","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RnVRSlUwYkEzcis3bXdKWVVjQ1VrUT09.webp?v=1769795564","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/down-paperback-7","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}