The Shirt Weapon - Softcover

Downing, Brandon

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ISBN 10: 0970992807 ISBN 13: 9780970992802

Publisher: Germ Press, 2002

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Poetry. As lush as Rossetti, as energetic as O'Hara, as intense as Mayakofsky, Brandon Downing writes with masterful abandon. "The blood is my age / Met me afterwards / Illegal sound lines // Making it something / So many illegal / The corridor clones / You convex fences // Illegal and lights / Doing bravery lights / Windmills and me / Illegal heights" (from "Introduction V"). The poems in this collection have been widely published in such journals as LUNGFULL!, FENCE, THE GERM, CONDUIT, and NEW AMERICAN WRITING. Brandon Downing is the founding editor of the magazine 6,500, and his books include Lazio and Gog & Horsey Pictures.

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About the Author:

Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2000, he has lived in New York City, where he works as an exhibit designer and writer. His poetry collections include THE SHIRT WEAPON and DARK BRANDON. An online gallery of much of his recent photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, DARK BRANDON//ETERNAL CLASSICS, was released in 2007.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Germ, a (near) annual magazine with an internationalist antiquarian edge and poets Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card at the helm, inaugurates its book publishing arm with Brandon Downing's The Shirt Weapon. If Pasternak's sister was life, Downing's in "My Clear Sister" hovers between states: "My sister you make an incredible sound. I gather you in the house, and all is circular. I run from my ninth to my thirtieth year, From soundstage to a new climate: the bakery of death." Across "Red Texas," "Bolivia" and "68 Quick Poems" ("5 Shawn looks like Scott"), Downing's O'Hara-esque ear and "Really long arrows, that smile, and frown" carry his speaker through beautifully.
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