Either Way I'm Celebrating
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 SvalinaAll 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 FoustWell / 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