Book Forty-Three
Brandon Brown
ISBN: 978-1-891190-43-8
Publication: 2020
Pages: 91
Brandon Brown is the author of several books, most recently The Four Seasons (Wonder) and The Good Life (Big Lucks). He has edited the zines Fuck You Longhair, Dee Dee's Kids, Sleep is the Enemy, Commonweal, OMG!, Celebrity Brush and currently edits Panda's Friend. He lives in the shadows of Albany Hill in El Cerrito, California.
Work is a sustained lyric study of all that happens in between the poet leaving their office at 4:30 in the afternoon on Midwinter's Day, 2018, and returning to it at 7:45 the next morning. The poem studies work through the lens of all that is apparently not-work, worrying the distinctions. The poet, after all, exercises the body, commutes, reads, cooks dinner, watches a film, brushes teeth, rests the body in sleep, elaborately dreams and transcribes, studies, listens. Literal work menaces the atmosphere, warning of its imminent return. But inside of that horror, and the political geography which accommodates its tyranny, there is a lot of pleasure. Smoldering indica, savory squash, saucy dreams, terrific soundtrack. Work joins the tradition of poems which respect the possibilities of a given day, which means, for this poet in this book, about sixteen hours.
Atelos Catalogue
Raw MaterialsAstrid Lorgange
Totality CantosBrian Ang
WorkBrandon Brown
Weak LinkRob Halpern
YavizaRoberto Harrison
The Republic of Exit 43Jennifer Scappettone
The bright red horse—and the blue—Katy Lederer
Merry HellSara Larsen
The Coffin Nail BluesTed Pearson
Notched SunsetsTim Wood
Journey to the SunBrent Cunningham
PreDictionaryMikhail Epstein
HowellTyrone Williams
One Last DitchErik J. M. Schneider
To After That (Toaf)Renee Gladman
The RoutePatrick Durgin & Jen Hofer
PoPedology of an Ambient LanguageEdwin Torres
ParseCraig Dworkin
To The CognoscentiTom Mandel
The TransformationJuliana Spahr
NegativityJocelyn Saidenberg
Ultra VioletaLaura Moriarty
City EclogueEd Roberson
Occupational TreatmentTaylor Brady
Open ClothesSteve Benson
Noh BusinessMurray Edmond
The Up and UpTed Greenwald
BlipSoak01Tan Link
Poetical DictionaryLohren Green
Tis of TheeFanny Howe
PlatformRodrigo Toscano
Fashionable Noise: On Digital PoeticsBrian Kim Stefans
The CraveKit Robinson
Some Vague WifeKathy Lou Schultz
lighthouseM. Mara-Ann
Gardener of StarsCarla Harryman
ForthcomingJalal Toufic
Alien TattersClark Coolidge
VersimilitudeHung Q. Tu
R-huLeslie Scalapinio
Cable Factory 20Lytle Shaw
Pamela: A NovelPamela Lu
TrueRae Armantrout
Bad HistoryBarrett Watten
The Literal WorldJean Day