DOWN

"I have tremendous respect for any poet who strives to be even half as great as Sarah Dowling."—CAConradDisorientation and defamiliarization yank fresh feeling from banal sentences. Down takes junk language—with cameos by Frank O'Hara, Frank Ocean, Aaliyah, and the Temptations—and flattens it until we're living in the same environment. How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics?Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture and Birds & Bees. Sarah's poetry was included in the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at Jacket2.