Backup Singers

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 " 9780991429806 099142980X 0 BOOK American poetry NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V6trngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Sommer Browning
• | Publisher: Birds
• | Publication Date: Jun 03, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 88 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 099142980X
• | ISBN-13: 9780991429806